How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind

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The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didnt write a note. How Not to Kill Yourself is an affirmation of life by someone who has tried to end it multiple times. Its about standing in your bathroom every morning, gearing yourself up to die. Its about choosing to go on living anyway. In an unflinching account of his darkest moments, Clancy Martin makes the case against suicide, drawing on the work of philosophers from Seneca to Jean Amry. Through critical inquiry and practical steps, we might yet answer our existential despair more freely and with a little more creativity.

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Clancy Martins work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harpers, Esquire, Laphams Quarterly, The Paris Review and many other prominent publications. His books include the critically acclaimed How to Sell and Love and Lies.