![]() ![]() Even those who return from the depths of misery are truly suicides, because their affliction, as he sees it, is the same as that which pushes some into the irrevocable moment of self-annihilation. I was not making choices."Īntrim writes of "suicides" rather than "the suicidal". "I was there to die", he says, "but dying was not a plan. When he climbed out onto the fire escape of his Brooklyn apartment in April 2006, it was not as a consequence of any decision. Suicide "isn't poetry or philosophy", he argues in One Friday in April, and we make an error in regarding it as an act of will. Donald Antrim agrees with neither proposition. Albert Camus regarded suicide as "the one really serious philosophical problem". For Cesare Pavese, who killed himself in a hotel room in Turin in 1950, suicide was "an act of ambition". ![]()
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