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What are some novels I should read if I'm considering suicide?

>> No.6232939

The Idiot's Guide to Buttfucking

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>>6232933

>> No.6234807

>>6232965

Fuck this world.

>> No.6234827

>>6232933
Do you mean books to convince you not to kill yourself? Book to egg you on? Or just depressing shit about death? I need details.

>> No.6234840

>>6232933
taipei

>> No.6234856

>>6232933
Do you want something that will make you more likely to do it or less?

>> No.6234871

The peaceful pill handbook

>> No.6234874

>>6232933
Start with the Greeks.

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>>6232933
Nothing depressing. Not these >>6232958

Seek help. Try to stay away from 4chan junk.

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>>6232933
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.

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>>6232933
Not a novel, but I'll be damned if philosophy can't help.
If you really can't take it, just watch some of these before going. it's not like you'd lose anything anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVA8jX9KQcE&list=PL7857933243B7D31B

>> No.6235873

David Benatar's and his friends' articles and Better To Never Have Been
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and everything else by Ligotti
Sarah Perry - Every Cradle Is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
She also has a blog called View From Hell
>>6232958
These minus Camus, Nietzsche and Catcher in the Rye
>>6234871
This before doing the deed.

Godspeed, OP.

>> No.6235926

>>6232933
therapist

>> No.6235950

>>6235926
therapist is an amazing novel
I recommend everyone I know to read therapist
It truly is a great book.

>> No.6235991

>>6232933

>is that American Psycho

top lol those two hate each other. Infinite Jest is so much more impressive than anything BEE written, no literature is 'better' than any other though, i guess, but Less Than Zero will be remembered far longer than AP, if we're talking writing style alone and not social impact and content

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This:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660518.Better_Never_to_Have_Been

>> No.6236013

>>6232933
>i <3 sincerity
can we even trust ourselves to be sincere?

>> No.6236031

Darkness Visible by William Styron

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>>6232933
Exercise, less masturbation, time outside. This is what you need most. I'd recommend Yukio Mishima to encourage this but considering your suicide thing you might want to stay away from him. Go outside though, it's good for you.

As for books, A Confederacy of Dunces might cheer you up since it's funny and The Stars My Destination is loads of fun, easy to read and has a great message.

And if you're into anime (why would you be here if you aren't?) consider watching Eva.

Whatever you're feeling, plenty of other people have been through it before, and one of them is bound to have written down something that'll help you.

>> No.6236101

>>6232933
ARTAMÈNE, in the original language. You're not allowed to kill yourself until you learn every word in the book and read it completely. I expect a 40 page report on how the themes of the novel predict the anxieties explored by Joyce in his Dublin series (esp. Ulysses, which you also must read in full).

Seriously, don't kill yourself, my man.

>> No.6236160

>>6235089
This. Opening thesis: Only relevant question in philosophy is "Why not suicide"

if you really have thoughts of suicide and feel uncomfortable about it (but can't manage to find a way to think about something else in times):

everyone saying therapy is right. But good books might help you make the most out of therapy, in fact your therapist may know those existentialist books as well.
It makes it very easy to connect and share thoughts on complex matters of your inner state of mind, thus propelling the healingprocess.

turned out to work for me btw