/lit/ - Literature

Peeps will say Mishima, but the true response is actually Vachel Lindsay.

What a terrible question.

>>4985774
Thanks, I didn't know him! I still think the suicide of Empedocles is unmatched, even by Mishima.

>>4985765

Not really badass but the most philosophical suicide since Socrates.

>>4985944
Who dat

>>4986022

put your detective skills to work, the name is there

>>4985765
Dominique Venner.
Not as spectacular as Mishima but far more spiritual and potent. In the English speaking world we never heard about, in Europe it sent shockwaves across the whole continent.

>>4985944
>By about the fall of 1910, he completed his work, finishing the appendices by 17 October. He was surely very tired, and that day he had a fight with his mother, who complained he had not wished her a happy birthday. Left alone, Carlo took a loaded pistol he had in the house and killed himself.
What exactly is philosophical about this?

>>4986103
>he characterizes his suicide as a rebellion "against pervasive individual desires that destroy the anchors of our identity, particularly the family, the intimate base of our multi-millennial society."

what a doooooouche. Wikipedia also notes that he was suffering from a "serious illness". He's old and dying and ends his life in the most undignified manner possible, in a public place, lamenting over the assumed national identity crisis of a nation that was changing into something he personally didn't like

No wonder we didn't hear about it here in the States -- people murder each other over this bullshit here, not kill themselves

Runner up

I tried but can't find the link, but I recently found a "top x facts about Ernest Hemingway you didnt know" article that talked about the ways he attempted suicide before his successful brain-ectomy. Apparently, he tried to walk into a taxiing plane's propeller before being stopped.

>>4985798
Empedocles jumped into the volcano to prove he wasn't mortal. It wasn't a suicide, it was a suicidally stupid move.

>>4986103
he was a racist, homophobic, backwards fuckhead. Nothing admirable about the fact that he couldn't deal with change.

>>4986287
>he was a racist, homophobic, backwards fuckhead. Nothing admirable about the fact that he couldn't deal with change
He comes from the ideological school of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Carlyle and Tennyson. You're an insect compared to that man.

>>4985765
Diogenes of Sinope. Held breath to death!

>>4986368
physically impossible

>>4986345
white power

>>4986287
>dissolving unique culture of France
>not racist against Frenchmen

I hate the French but you're a brainwashed retard.

>>4986345
And yet all of those men are dead.

>>4986375
>>4986383
I do love the rapier wits on this board. You all loudly agree with each other then turn the cold tap on the outsider. Love and tolerance so long as you think like me seems to be the doctrine around here. That and a categorical rejection of the reading of any impure books of an unsatisfactory level of progressiveness, lest thy faith be tested. Good job /lit/ you're a mirror image of /pol/.

>>4986391
sorry for hurting your feelings

>>4986396
I'm not sure if leftists refuse to counter points because they do not know how, think themselves above it or avoid considering other views "lest thy faith be tested". I promise you the only feeling I feel while browsing /lit/ is pity. You live life in a nice little self assured box. I'm not sure how much longer than box will last but one day it will fall right in on you.

>>4986404
You are a gigantic faggot.

>>4986404
your post is dripping with sarcasm and injured pride

I was just keeping in line with the humor...

are you really asking me to argue the "points" you've leveled against an anonymous message board? you are fucking loco, pinch

>>4986404
anyway I just expressed an opinion and you attacked it with your dramatic wailing

>>4985765
Sylvia Plath by far.

Runners up: Deleuze and Poulantzas for both self-defenestrating.

>>4985765
>Plath
GOD TIER: Sylvia Plath

>>4986961
>>4986995
Plath's was pretty lame though, right? Didn't she just inhale oven fumes?

>>4985765
Peregrinus Proteus set himself on fire at the Olympics. Note sure if he wrote.

Mishima or Weininger

>>4987288
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME

>>4987288
Emilio Salgari also commited sudoku.

>>4985765
Virginia Woolf and Paul Celan.

Takes guts to drown oneself, imo.

>>4985765
Dear Old Sergei, writing his last poem with his own blood before hanging himself in a hotel room

Victor Tausk.

On the morning of July 3, 1919 after Helene Deutsch had stopped Tausk’s treatment after Freud had demanded it, and after a complicated relation with Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tausk committed suicide by tying a curtain braid around his neck, then placing a pistol against his right temple and firing, hanging himself as he fell.[2]

Freud wrote to Salomé that "I confess that I do not really miss him; I had long realised that he could be of no further service; indeed that he constituted a threat to the future." [3]

Koestler wrote a wonderful suicide note. A pretty lame suicide but still worth mentioning.

>>4986368
Source?
>>4986961
>>4986995
aaaaawwwww yeah

>>4987295
>sudoku

>>4986105
>What exactly is philosophical about this?

He finished his Phd dissertation that day. Where he argued several points about the impossibility of an authentic or free life.

His suicide is in accord with his philosophy, not with a dispute he had with his mom like wiki implies lol

>>4988239
Not philosophical in the least, you dullard.

I would just like to point out that Sylvia Plath did not stick her head into an oven that was turned on to heat things. The gas was simply running.

>>4988264

You should read his works before trolling pointlessly.

>all these boys doing it with pistol and poison

>>4985774
How the fuck is drinking lysol because you're poor even close to killing yourself in an outdated ceremonial tradition in order to protest western cultural dominance?

>>4987288
this

HST

>>4987894
It's a meme, heh.

No one mentioned Elliot Rodger :(

>>4986381

Who gives a fuck about french culture other than people so pathetic that they actually give a shit about nationalism?

>>4988386
>going out with the gayboys innawoods for a day of erotic fake death posing

How can people not hate Mushimushi?

>>4988871
But we like him for this reason!

>>4988675
lol

>>4988871
Mushimushi ?

>>4986961
>self-defenestrating

I've heard it's the no. 1 suicide method for shitty french philosophers.

>>4988520
Maybe you could find your epic meme in le reddit, /r9k/ or youtube :^)

>>4985765
That one that killed himself writing.

>>4990491
Balzac ?

>>4988871
In "confessions of a mask" he writes extensively about his fascination with the beauty of death and Saint Sebastian especially, so him striking this pose makes sense, though it does seem rather try-hard.

>>4990736
He stroke the pose many times for Eikoh Hosoe. If this picture makes him look like a try-hard for you, it is probably because they made it the way classical paintings were made, with such obvious attitudes.
He looks cooler on this one.

>>4990832
and this one.

>>4988386
Forgot to mention Artaud did the same picture.

>>4990832
>>4990841
this guy would take to instagram like a 14 year old girl

>>4990895
implying you don't

>>4990887
>the same picture
yeahhh... so did like every renaissance painter. regardless of who is modeling it or painting it, the subject is always the martyred St Sebastian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sebastian

>>4985765

Surely Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf.

Those women really know how to top themselves.

Though, personally, I think they may have been murdered and set up to look like suicides. Just sayin'.

>>4990967
this is what I meant