On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death
by Jean Amery
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Author: Jean AmeryEditor: John D. Barlow
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09
ISBN: 0253335639
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Book Review: On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death
Summary: 3 Stars
There are other options, other possibilities. If you like this book, you will probably like the poetry of Sylvia Plath (I do) - although defined by her suicide attempts and her final "success" - it has meant that Plath's work has been mostly "defined" by her actions, rather than letting the work define itself - so this has limited the potential reading of her work and has limited the reader's perspectives of it , which is a real shame. If all roads lead to loss of life through choice, then you have not looked at other routes. I would urge readers to look at this as just an intellectual debate, rather than as a self justification for self-annihilation/destruction. Suicide is selfish, no matter how you dress it up. It is the ultimate selfish act. There is always hope, it is just sometimes very hard to see - something worth remembering when reading this book. Life is a choice and it is hard work - but there are benefits longer term. Don't give up, you are needed here - you might not really believe it but you are. You have yet more to achieve.
Summary of On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death
Jean Amry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.Grief & Bereavement Books
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