Cover art for How Not to Kill Yourself
Published
Oneworld, August 2023
ISBN
9780861540488
Format
Hardcover, 336 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.5cm × 2.9cm

How Not to Kill Yourself My life in suicide

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The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash.

Weaving an intimate and unflinching account of his multiple suicide attempts with the personal experiences of those who have reached out to him over the years, Martin draws an insightful and, at times, comic portrait of the suicidal mind. He investigates the thinking of great writers who have attempted the unmentionable, from David Foster Wallace to Yiyun Li, and asks what philosophy has to say for and against suicide.

Both a disarming memoir and a cultural exploration of a hopeless state of mind, How Not to Kill Yourself allows us to grapple honestly with an enduring social taboo and shows that the desire to kill oneself - like other self-destructive impulses - is almost always temporary.

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