"The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today would have wanted to live had he a week."(Voltaire) In the U.S. assisted suicide has become all too common. Mr. Jack Kevorkian, otherwise known as Dr. Death, might be the reason for this unethical uprising. Assisted suicide in ...

A tragic play is one in which the protagonist dies through disaster evoked by a combination of personal faults and circumstances out with the character's control. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is true to this genre, depicting a noble, but flawed, character that is subject to outrageous ...

The security surrounding the trial of Jeff Dahmer was unique in Milwaukee's history. He slaughtered his victims in secret for more than three years, decorating his apartment with the remains. He even took photographs of their corpses so he could later look back and relive the experience of mur...