Over the past year, I’ve shared stories of people going through some of the hardest things imaginable. Here are the most unforgettable ones. Warning: This post contains suicidal ideation, child loss, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1."I was certain I was going to die. I was swimming with my six-year-old daughter in a community pool a month after having a ...

This story “The Alann Steen Story: How I Survived,” appeared in the January 1993 print issue of Outdoor Life. Steen, who served as a U.S. Marine for six years and was briefly deployed during the Cuban ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jake Gabbard, a video producer at Business Insider. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. It was like one of those moments in ...

A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting ...

Dear Annie: This letter describes my life experiences with bullies and how I managed to succeed. I was a scrawny, pimple-faced little kid growing up, had a weak voice, got fists shaken in my face ...

"For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too ... I still can't believe how I survived," Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

“You are not provided any joy, any stimulation—you got to find that yourself… I didn’t understand what weeks and months of silence can do to someone’s psyche. That can tear people apart if you’re not ...