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ITT: books to read before committing suicide.

>> No.11163759

>>11163755
Schopenhauer/Nietzsche

>> No.11163762

Michelstaedter

>> No.11163764

>>11163759
Already done buddy. World as Will, Essay and Aphorisms, Ecce Homo, Genealogy... Anything else?

>> No.11163862

>>11163755
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It made me realize suicide is valid solution.

>> No.11163896

>>11163862
Better be good buddy. I've just ordered the audiobook. I'm very high right now on benzos and I can barely type so I thought the audiobook might be better than a paper copy.

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it might save you

>> No.11163916

Stoner and Oblomov

>> No.11163922

>reading a book before committing suicide

Just go outside dude

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>>11163755
>not hanging yourself with pages of a book instead

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>> No.11164028

Letters from a Stoic, he talks a bit about a guy who committed suicide
Got me a lot closer to convincing me of it

>> No.11164248

>>11163764
Zarathustra.

You won't go through with it. You'll climb a mountain instead.

>> No.11164266

>>11163762
/thread

>> No.11164329

>>11163755
The Brothers Karamazov, if you still want to kill yourself at the end you know you mean it.

>> No.11164339

>>11163762
Wtf this guy died at 23 and yet people remember the stuff he wrote, that alone makes me want to kill myself.

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>> No.11164357

>>11163896
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca is a better representation of Stoicism imo

>> No.11164369

Dostoevsky's work for sure. Crime and Punishment, Demons, Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.11164380

>tfw came very, very close the other month
I'm lucky I come from a middle class family and was able to get the psychiatric care I needed. Now I'm taking four different antidepressants at fairly high dosages and doing a lot better, but it worries me that in the future I might slip back towards the Void. I know he's considered a meme, but I highly recommend the works of DFW to anybody who struggles with depression. I don't know how effective his proposed solutions to the problem are, but he describes the experience very well, and that's something.

>> No.11164390

>>11164380
>antidepressants

for pussies. take the leap or stare it in the face day in and day out

>> No.11164415

>>11163755
Read some Pessoa and then some Hemingway.

>> No.11164428

>>11164390
I thought like that for a long time but it only drove me deeper into the hole. Unfortunately I need them to function, and I want to function, so I'm going to take them.

>> No.11165147

>>11163935
What is this?

>> No.11165165

>>11164380
I doubt they're very effective if he offed himself

Glad to hear that you are doing better though. there's a lot to live for

>> No.11165173

>>11164428
Whenever I read stuff like this I can't help but wonder just how insulting these problems are to people who actually suffer.

>> No.11165182

>>11165173
Don't you have some canned food to donate, mate?

>> No.11165223

pessoa and mishima

>> No.11165225

>>11165165
>there's a lot to live for

Like what? Will DFW tell me

>> No.11165233

>>11165173
If you have some sort of chemical problem in your brain, it's not like recognizing the greater suffering of others is going to make yours go away.

>> No.11165445

from experience, enough time passing can change and heal things, and asking God as well, which i did back when i didn't believe. i hope you get better :)