After losing two friends to suicide just over a year apart, Jennifer Michael Hecht was looking for answers. As she usually does, she turned to philosophy, but she found herself dissatisfied with the reactive individualism of Enlightenment and modern secular philosophy. Out of that dissatisfaction came Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It. Stay chronicles the history of Western reasons for committing suicide and the reasons philosophers have given for people to hang on through bleakness and despair.
Hecht joins us this Sunday to talk about the book and to talk about why would should be grateful to those who chose to remain with us.
Related Links:
- Jennifer Michael Hecht’s website
- Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It on Amazon
- “To Live Is an Act of Courage” on the crisis of military suicide
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