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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.

2 Nov 2026

Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.

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2026-11-02 note: 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.