Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences
10 best books like Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences (Geo Stone): Notes from Underground, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Hunger, The Doors of Perception, Mostly Harmless, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go, The Suicidal Mind
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli)...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0486431681 |
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate...
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book...
| Author | Douglas Adams |
| ISBN | 0345379330 |
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead...
| Author | Derek Humphry |
| ISBN | 0385336535 |
As the legal controversy continues—this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel.
The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people...
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0375701478 |
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and...
| Author | William J. Broad |
| ISBN | 1451641427 |
A lead science writer for The New York Times—and lifelong yoga practitioner—examines centuries of history and research to scrutinize the claims made about yoga for health, fitness, emotional wellbeing, sex, weight loss, healing, and creativity. He reveals what is real and what is illusory,...
| Author | H.P. Newquist |
| ISBN | 0312540620 |
Have you been attacked by a great white shark? Gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Been exposed to anthrax? No, you haven't, or you'd be dead. This Will Kill You reveals the intriguing facts behind the many ways humans bite the dust in encounters with deadly bugs, hungry predators, natural disasters,...
| Author | Edwin S. Shneidman |
| ISBN | 0195118014 |
Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States, raising alarms across the nation about the rising tide of hopelessness seen in our young...
