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Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones' body on Valentine's Day, 1994. Struggling with deep depression, he had killed himself using a method clearly outlined in the bestselling book, Final Exit. Six years later, in an account both deeply personal and thoughtfully political, Farr reflects on Daniel's suicide and its consequences. After Daniel is not a sensational tell-all, a self-help book on grieving, or an academic review of suicide theories. It is one...
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Español
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La medicina contemporánea es capaz de llevarnos hasta edades muy avanzadas, con una alta probabilidad de que sobrevengan enfermedades crónicas e incurables como cáncer, diabetes o demencias. Estas enfermedades suponen un enorme sufrimiento físico y psicológico además de la aniquilación de la persona, como en las demencias. Es paradójico que justamente cuando la medicina permite un aumento enorme en la expectativa de vida, a veces con buena...
23) After the Rain
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English
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When a child is born they're a blank canvas. A canvas that is later moulded by the influences of the world around them. Those influences determine that child's future, but they are not always kind. Some of those children will enter adulthood easily, unscathed by the harshness of life, but for others, that journey is not an easy path to follow.And then there are those, who's journey's are cut short.He only ever wanted ….. to fit in. He only ever...
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English
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In every age of the world and in the history of almost every country, we find instances, more or less numerous, of men and women who, preferring the dim uncertainty of the future to the painful realities of the present, have sought relief from all their troubles by suddenly terminating their own existence. Misery and pain have been the lot of the human race ever since the dawn of history, and these causes have from the earliest times induced persons...
26) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...
28) The heirloom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. Only one heir secretly survived and years later he inherits the family mansion and returns there with his fiancee. Mysterious and deadly events begin to take place, the demented legacy of the Yang family curse is reborn and history is soon poised to repeat itself.
29) The Departure
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
日本語
Description
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself.
30) Suicide
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Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Discusses suicide and court cases involving suicide, focusing heavily on suicide by the terminally ill and euthanasia. Contains a bibliography and a list of pertinent associations.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika wakes up in a mental hospital after a failed suicide attempt and learns that the pills she took damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live, and in the week that follows, Veronika learns some important lessons about life and love.
33) No right turn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
After three years of wanting only to be invisible, sixteen-year-old Jordan begins to recover from his father's suicide and start living again when a neighbor's vintage Corvette Stingray opens up new possibilities for him.
38) Sound of insects
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a remote forest, a hunter discovers a mummified corpse and a diary, detailing the man's thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation. Based on an incredible true story, the Sound of insects is a stunning investigation into the man's enigmatic self-destructive motivations.
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Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • A LIBRARYREADS PICK “If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut…”-- BuzzFeed Here are three things you should know about my husband: He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado. He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy. Which is significant...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of events surrounding the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890, in which the artist's friends, Lucien Lessard and Henri Toulouse-Latrec, travel around nineteenth-century Paris in search of answers about how van Gogh died.
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