How NOT to commit suicide
Over here is a fascinating article on the different realms of suicide– its stages and the aftermath. It begins by highlighting those who attempt to aid people in suicide by publishing books detailing how to do so efficiently, and then moves on to suicide prevention networks and the emergency personel who get called to suicide scenes.
When a genuine myth rises into consciousness, Ursula Le Guin wrote in The Language of the Night (Spring ‘81 CQ., p. 54), the message is always: You must change your life. Each suicide attempt, I’m convinced, carries that message: to the person who tries it, to the people who are close to that person, and to the rest of us as a society. I think what happens after a suicide attempt is a sort of autopsy of what’s best and worst about our culture. Here is some of that story.
It ends with the author’s own shifting philosophical view on suicide. Though long, this article is well worth reading.
via metafilter
