← todas as notas❝ Citaçãothe mind is a great servant but a…2 Nov 2026#simon-critchley#notes-on-suicidePassagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.← todas as notas← The man who has never imagined his own annihilation, who has not anticipated recourse to the rope, the bullet, poison or the sea, is a degraded galley slave or a worm crawling upon the cosmic carrion. The world can take everything from us, can forbid us everything, but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out. The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon has very helpfully begun this work by introducing four categories of suicide: (i) a manic, dire, impulsive and sudden act; (ii) revenge, or self-obliteration as payback for a felt wound; (iii) suicides which are planned, with complex and often lengthy notes, seemingly pragmatic but with a deeply faulty logic, ‘as though they were organizing a holiday in outer space’, as Solomon writes; and (iv) those planned through a reasonable logic, because of physical illness, mental instability or some catastrophic change in life’s circumstances. To be clear, those people included under (iv) might be mistaken in their view, in particular the consequences that their action might have on their nearest and dearest, but we cannot say that they are deluded. →
