Simon Critchley: Notes on Suicide

This book is not a suicide note.


For reasons that we don’t need to go into, my life has dissolved over the past year or so, like sugar in hot tea.


If life is a gift from God, then God must allow for the possibility of suicide as the rejection of that gift.


“Is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”
- EM Cioran