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Title: On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery, John D. Barlow ISBN: 0-253-33563-9 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: how suicide actually feels...
Comment: Finding myself an unwilling survivor of suicide in 1991, I resigned myself to making a more strenuous effort. At the same time, I began a rigorous study of the literature of suicide in order to gain some understanding of what I found happening to me. The situation was simply bizarre beyond words.
Subsequently, I have plowed through mountains of "expert" opinion and sampled all the various available treatments with the unavoidable conclusion that no one can help me understand what is happening. And I really ought to finish my suicide before madness incapacitates me. The urgency is extreme.
Here the author at least exposes the missteps of psychotherapy with regard to suicide in such a frank and compassionate way that I finally have some semblance of hope that I can make my peace with the problem. Here is a human who has thrust himself beyond the edge of life and was involuntarily thrust back into it. So he knows what he's talking about. And his manner of discussion is so soothing and articulate and artistic that it reintroduces some dignity into my own life that has been cast aside, even by myself, as a horrific failure. Yes, dignity at least appears to become resurrected as a possibility to me now.
And the friendly talk here is infinitely satisfying on so many different intimately personal levels. The author's experience is one that comforts by way of confirming the unspeakable fact that we who long to die are NOT really mad. We would not REALLY want to die if the world were really a sane place. And he scratches a possibility of hope onto the surface of the world that says--Let those of us who know this feeling reach out in sane comfort to each other. No particular way...just some way. Not much sanity...just a little...just enough to get by on.
And that's precisely what I'm doing with this review. I am bearing witness that this man knows how suicide feels...so that his words have substance and profound depth and comfort.
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Title: At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities by Jean Amery, Stella P. Rosenfeld, Sidney Rosenfeld ISBN: 0253211735 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Aging: Revolt and Resignation by Jean Amery, John D. Barlow ISBN: 0253306752 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Kaddish for a Child Not Born by Imre Kertesz, Katharina M. Wilson, Christopher C. Wilson ISBN: 0810111616 Publisher: Hydra Books Pub. Date: 25 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0375504842 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Fateless by Imre Kertesz, Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson ISBN: 0810110490 Publisher: Hydra Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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