On Suicide

A meditative, probing work on the right of an individual to take his or her own life by the author of At the Mind's Limits and On Aging.

Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.

" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " —Kirkus Reviews

Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.