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Notes on Suicide
- Author: Simon Critchley
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 112
Readers on perLibre: 5
Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to the question – ‘is life worth living? ’ – might not be an emphatic yes; it might even be a stern no.
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