000519413 000__ 02880cam\a2200433Ki\4500 000519413 001__ 519413 000519413 005__ 20210513183344.0 000519413 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000519413 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 000519413 008__ 140114s2013\\\\ctu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000519413 020__ $$a9780300187090 (electronic book) 000519413 020__ $$a0300187092 (electronic book) 000519413 020__ $$z9780300186086 000519413 020__ $$z0300186088 000519413 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn862746145 000519413 035__ $$a(OCoLC)862746145 000519413 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dYDXCP$$dIDEBK 000519413 049__ $$aISEA 000519413 050_4 $$aHV6545$$b.H372 2013eb 000519413 08204 $$a179.7$$223 000519413 1001_ $$aHecht, Jennifer Michael,$$d1965- 000519413 24510 $$aStay$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba history of suicide and the philosophies against it /$$cJennifer Michael Hecht. 000519413 264_1 $$aNew Haven, Conneticut :$$bYale University Press,$$c[2013] 000519413 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) 000519413 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000519413 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000519413 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000519413 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000519413 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000519413 520__ $$aWorldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our "secular age" in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment's insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide. 000519413 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000519413 650_0 $$aSuicide. 000519413 650_0 $$aSuicide$$xPrevention. 000519413 650_0 $$aCommunities. 000519413 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aHecht, Jennifer Michael, 1965-$$tStay.$$dNew Haven, Conneticut : Yale University Press, [2013]$$z9780300186086$$w(DLC) 2013016107$$w(OCoLC)852488244 000519413 852__ $$bacq 000519413 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000519413 85640 $$3EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=660059$$zOnline Access 000519413 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:519413$$pGLOBAL_SET 000519413 980__ $$aEBOOK 000519413 980__ $$aBIB 000519413 982__ $$aEbook 000519413 983__ $$aOnline 000519413 994__ $$a92$$bISE