Prologue -- Introduction -- Little girl lost: Kyra -- The fighter: Enoch -- Overload: Candy -- The last stand: David -- Homo: Tucker -- Escaping death: Gita -- Shock jock: boots -- Cutter: Jill -- On the road: Cody -- Born-again virgin: Gabriella -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson -- Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
#x93;Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die." -Kyra V., seventeen Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable.
