Category
page 1Books about suicide
Suicide
1897 essay by Émile Durkheim
The Complete Manual of Suicide
non-fiction work by Wataru Tsurumi
Final Exit
essay by Derek Humphry
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
book by Philip Nitschke
Biathanatos
Biathanatos (from Greek meaning "violent death") is a prose work by the English writer and clergyman John Donne. Written in 1608 and published after his death, it contains a heterodox defense of "self-homicide" (suicide), listing prominent Biblical examples including Jesus, Samson, Saul, and Judas Iscariot. Thomas De Quincey responds to the work in his "On Suicide", and Jorge Luis Borges responds in "Biathanatos".