Clancy Martin

How Not to Kill Yourself (eBook, ePUB)

Portrait of a Suicidal Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Illuminating, riveting, and for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn't write a note. How Not to Kill Yourself is an affirmation of life by someone who has tried to end it multiple times. It's about standing in your bathroom every morning, gearing yourself up to die. It's about choosing to go on living anyway. In an unflinching account of his darkest moments, Clancy Martin makes the case against suicide, drawing on the work of philosophers from Seneca to Jean Améry. Through critical inquiry and practical steps, we might yet answer our existential despair more freely and with a little more creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861540631
• Artikelnr.: 62157044

Autorenporträt

Clancy Martin's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, The Paris Review and many other prominent publications. His books include the critically acclaimed How to Sell and Love and Lies.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to the Reader • xi
Preface • xiii
 
Part I SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
1 The Suicidal Mind • 3
2 Is There a Death Drive? • 34
3 I Can Always Just Kill Myself Tomorrow • 59
4 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part I) • 90
 
Part II ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
5 Drinking Myself to Death • 113
6 Philosophical Suicide • 156
7 The Sickness unto Death: Observations from Édouard Levé, David Foster
Wallace, and Nelly Arcan • 192
8 The Afterlife, or, Welcome to the Psych Ward • 223
 
Part III THE LONG ROAD BACK
9 Relapse Is Part of Recovery • 249
10 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part II) • 263
11 A Good Death? • 286
 
Acknowledgments • 335
Appendix I. Tools for Crisis • 337
Appendix II. In Case of Emergency: Interviews on Staying Alive • 341
Notes • 367
Index • 409