NOTES ON SUICIDE

Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicid e looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to the quest ion - 'is life worth living?' - might not be an emphatic yes/ it might even be a stern no. Through a sweeping historical overview of suicide, a moving literary survey of famous suicide notes, and a psychological analysis of himself, Simon Critchley offers us an in sight in...[Read more]