Download >>> https://byltly.com/25qrnn
This article discusses suicide. If you're feeling suicidal, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. The Complete Manual of Suicide by Wataru Tsurumi Originally published in Japan in 1993, The Complete Manual of Suicide has been reprinted many times, with a new edition having been released in 2007. It is widely available in bookstores across Japan. In addition to the mass market paperback version, the book has been published in a variety of formats including two hardcover editions and an audiobook read by the author. If you were to ask me what I have come to regard as the most important non-fiction book I have ever read, this would be it. As "author" of the book, I have no claim to the name Wataru Tsurumi. I am not a fan of his work or even of suicide. As far as I am concerned, this is just a book he wrote on behalf of himself. I first read this book about ten years ago now, back when it was originally published in Japanese and had yet to be translated into English. It had been recommended to me by a friend who thought that it might be interesting as an outsider's look into Japanese culture and suicide. At the time, I could only find the hardcover version which was quite expensive and still not very easy to come by. Up until the last year, I had no idea that this book had made its way into English (and was available for purchase) not long ago. The first page of the English translation begins with a disclaimer that many of the author's words are novelistic. This is not an exaggeration. The book is an extremely short one page long novel written in three parts, which are tacked on to the end of the book encased in a plastic slipcase. The first part contains no sentences and is bare except for some illustrations drawn by Tsurumi himself. Part two begins with "He" facing "his" reflection in an oblong mirror being told, "You have now come to where you must die. Do you remember who you are? Don't you know?" The narrator then continues, "The fact that he doesn't remember his name or the details of his life is a matter of utter indifference to him. He has come here, to this place, precisely because he is a man who has forgotten these things." The chapter ends with a revelation that what "he" has been seeing in the mirror is not another person but rather only himself. Which brings us to part three, which can be summed up as "Herein lies a man who was forced to kill himself by those around him." In this part we find out what happened before "he" arrived at this state where he must now commit suicide. eccc085e13
Comments