Let Me Finish
On sale
1st January 2007
Price: £8.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755314447
Suicide has been part of human life since the dawn of time, but has never been so widely and openly discussed as it is today. With the ongoing debate about the rights of the terminally ill to end their own lives, the phenomenon of Internet sites dedicated to advice on how to end your life, and the craze for mass suicides among the Japanese, suicide is rarely out of the news in the 21st century.
Udo Grashoff has discovered 45 suicide notes that help us to better understand why despairing people commit the ultimate taboo. In this fascinating collection those reasons are remarkably universal, from unrequited love, to loss of a spouse, to simple frustration with a domestic situation.
Despite the universality of its subject matter, this book is unique.
Udo Grashoff has discovered 45 suicide notes that help us to better understand why despairing people commit the ultimate taboo. In this fascinating collection those reasons are remarkably universal, from unrequited love, to loss of a spouse, to simple frustration with a domestic situation.
Despite the universality of its subject matter, this book is unique.
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Reviews
'Udo Grashoff brings into the light a human response we too readily shroud in that cowardly term "inexplicable"'
A remarkable anthology of suicide letters ... signalling a new fascination and openness about a centuries-old taboo
'Compulsively fascinating'
'An intriguing investigation'
'A remarkable book'
'Very moving'
The letters inspire morbid curiosity
'A heart-wrenching anthology...offers hope of recognition as well as prevention'
'Utterly compelling'
'A grim but fascinating insight into human nature. Macabre of course, but undeniably captivating all the same'
'enlightening and thoughtful'