検索キーワード： 自殺

This book is a searingly honest personal story of suicide. As Rita Wright navigates her way through the loss of her daughter, Anna Wright, she demonstrates how anxiety, panic, and depression do not have to end in death. This is a personal and professional insight into why some people can manage their emotions, whereas others, with an inbuilt fragility, melancholia, and what she refers to as a genetic "naked nerve", seek relief in death. Under the Fig Tree is a dramatic true-life, 21st-century story of one girl whose feelings and troubles are replicated worldwide.

Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their 23-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis. 

Lisa Bachman’s son, Justin, was sick, suffering, and broken. Lisa and her husband, Ron, had no idea how to heal, help, or fix him. His third suicide attempt, by the time he was eleven years old, was their final wake-up call. Although he survived, their family was left without a roadmap. They would start down a path through a maze, hit a wall, turn around, and begin again. Thankfully, with help, they found their way.

Este libro inclasificable no es solo un sumario razonado de notas y cartas escritas por suicidas. Es también una aproximación al pulso que late bajo la decisión extrema de quitarse la vida. Porque ninguna nota redactada antes de un suicidio consumado se escribe en balde. Marc Caellas aplica el oído a la pared torácica de cada nota, como quien ausculta, para sondear el fondo humano de lo ahí escrito, sin juzgar, ni justificar, sin ensalzar. Y lo hace desde una perspectiva individual y social, poniendo de relieve la necesidad de conversar sobre el suicidio...