Books about Suicide.

[MissBlack000]

Can people here share the books they have about Suicide. I would like to research more than the typical anti-suicide literature. I would like to know more about the lives of others who are suicidal or have committed suicide. Please share!

 

[Griever]

It's a novel, but it's still a good book, it's called Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

 

[L9my]

Can people here share the books they have about Suicide. I would like to research more than the typical anti-suicide literature. I would like to know more about the lives of others who are suicidal or have committed suicide. Please share!

a collection of suicide notes - though the author is very anti suicide and honestly quite mean
Every cradle is a grave - more non fiction, but I liked it

 

[wantingdignity]

Fiction:
We Are the Ants - a young boy is abducted by aliens and is told that he has a little over 100 days to decide whether or not he wants to stop the end of the world. He is mourning his boyfriend's suicide and spends the book pondering whether or not to end human life

 

[ecniv]

"[Kay Redfield Jamison's] seminal works among laypeople are her memoir An Unquiet Mind, which details her experience with severe mania and depression, and Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, providing historical, religious, and cultural responses to suicide, as well as the relationship between mental illness and suicide." (From Wikipedia.)

Night Falls Fast had an impact on me. I then read An Unquiet Mind, and reading it felt like I was talking with someone just as obsessed with the topic as I was/am.

 

[Manic Panic]

I recommend a book called It's kind of a funny story by Ned Vizzini