Japan

Japanese culture

Japanese society

life insurance

stigma

suicide

2020

adulthood

Albert Camus

artificial intelligence

being suicidal

Cardano (ADA)

deer

depression

diagnosis

doctor

euthanasia

execution

existentialism

fishing

immortality

insomnia

living

Ludwig Wittgenstein

martyrdom

prophecy

self-sacrifice

sign

slide

termite

transgender

transgender suicide

trolley problem

washing dishes

Vincent van Gogh

trivia

Suicide is the only proof of human freedom.

is the only literal escape from a life sentence.

Suicide: The only (literal) escape from a life sentence. (Death by accident or illness is not willed and hence doesn't count.) We now view suicide as a disease: hence the efforts to 'prevent' and 'treat' it. But suicide is more like a treatment: it is the only effective remedy against what sometimes ails people-namely, the necessity to go on living.

is not wanting to hurt oneself, but wanting to stop hurting.

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

is a timid murderer. It is masochism instead of sadism.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism. Cesare Pavese

is a protest against life whereby, by dying, one attempts to escape a longing for death.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life... by dying, you would escape this longing for death. Cesare Pavese

is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. Cesare Pavese

is a thing where the thought thereof is the only thing that keeps some people going.

For years I've thought about killing myself. It's the only thing that kept me going

Robin Williams

Hollywood Sign

Peg Entwistle

altruistic suicide

assisted suicide

cultural suicide

egoistic suicide

kamikaze

philosophical suicide

political suicide

seppuku

suicide bombing

teenage suicide

Abbot, Francis Ellingwood

Adamic, Louis

Allen, Robert S.

Amery, Jean

Arbiter, Petronius

Arbus, Diane

Benjamin, Walter

Bennington, Chester

Berkman, Alexander

Bettelheim, Bruno

Beysen, Ward

Boltzmann, Ludwig

Bourdain, Anthony

Brautigan, Richard

Budgell, Eustace

Cato the Younger

Celan, Paul

Chamfort, Nicolas

Childe, V. Gordon

Cleomenes I

Clive, Robert

Cobain, Kurt

Colton, Charles Caleb

Cooper, Courtney

Cooper, Courtney Riley

Crane, Hart

Cross, Amanda

Cuppy, Will

Dagerman, Stig

Dazai, Osamu

de Montherlant, Henri

de Nerval, Gerard

Debord, Guy

Deleuze, Gilles

Demosthenes

Denby, Edwin

Ditlevsen, Tove

Eastman, George

Empedocles

Entwistle, Peg

Epstein, Jeffrey

Fisher, Mark

FitzRoy, Robert

Frederique, Andre

Friedell, Egon

Gary, Romain

Gary, Roman

Gellhorn, Martha

Gilman, Charlotte

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Godel, Kurt

Goebbels, Joseph

Gordon, Adam Lindsay

Goring, Hermann

Gorky, Arshile

Graham, Philip

Gray, Spalding

Hancock, Tony

Hankin, St. John

Hardin, Garrett

Haydon, Benjamin Robert

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Helper, Hinton Rowan

Hemingway, Ernest

Himmler, Heinrich

Hitler, Adolf

Hoffman, Abbie

Hunt, William Morris

Hutchinson, Horace G.

Isocrates

Iyengar, B. K. S.

Jeane, Norma

Jeni, Richard

Judd, Naomi

Kahneman, Daniel

Kane, Sarah

Kawabata, Yasunari

Kidder, Margot

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Knebel, Fletcher

Koestler, Arthur

Kofman, Sarah

Kosinski, Jerzy

Laurence, Margaret

Levi, Primo

Lewis, Meriwether

Lindsay, Vachel

London, Jack

Lucan

Lucretius

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Meinhof, Ulrike

Metraux, Alfred

Metz, Christian

Mew, Charlotte

Miller, Hugh

Mishima, Yukio

Monnier, Adrienne

Monroe, Marilyn

Montgomery, L.M.

rope

revolver

coroner

morgue

47 Ronin

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Golden Gate Bridge

manic depressive

social fact

dying

grief

alienation

Anna Karenina

anomie

despondency

distress

exhaustion

self-contempt

self-hate

self-hatred

self-loathing

Wall Street Crash of 1929

fear of death

murder

coping

love of life

natural causes

self-mutilation

The Myth of Sisyphus

will to live

despair

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shame

escape

finality

taboo

free will

antidepressant

Cato

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suicide