THE SELF-HELP MARKET is rife with titles like How to Overcome Depression or How to Be Authentic. Here’s a new one: Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind (2023).
Largely autobiographical, this unique study is spliced with analyses of famous suicide case histories, as well as crisp commentaries on the extensive philosophical literature on suicide from the likes of Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, and Camus, as well as insights from a cast of Buddhist sages.
