Introduction / by Robert Coles -- Suicide of a schoolteacher / Phillip Lopate -- Phaedo / Plato -- Tulips / Sylvia Plath -- The second coming / Walker Percy -- The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- Meriwether Lewis and Abraham Lincoln / Howard Kushner -- The waves / Virginia Woolf -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Primo Levi's suicide note / Cynthia Ozick -- Shame / Primo Levi -- The heart of the matter / Graham Greene -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker -- Suicide and psychopathic states / Emile Durkheim -- Hamlet / Shakespeare -- After great pain / Emily Dickinson -- Biathanatos / John Donne -- Donne's Biathanatos / Jorge Luis Borges -- Taking oneself off / Ambrose Bierce -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Darkness visible / William Styron.
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