NOTES ON SUICIDE

Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own n
etworks of friends and family.



The spectre of suicide looms large, but the to
pic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider t
hat the answer to the question - 'is life worth living?' - might not be an empha
tic 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 a
nalysis of himself, Simon Critchley offers us an insight into what it means to p
ossess the all too human gift and curse of being of being able to choose life or
death.