Leaving You | The Cultural Meaning of Suicide Meditations You'll be inspired to find

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Our reluctance to recognize the right to die

Symbolically

Beverly Lowry

Leaving You | The Cultural Meaning of Suicide Meditations You'll be inspired to findAt heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority. How is it, then, that the act of suicideone with defiant political implicationshas come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self destructive victim? In Leaving You, Lisa Lieberman explores the puzzle of this reigning perception of suicide. Drawing on diverse sources, from biblical stories to Romantic novels, philosophical theories, and psychiatric