![]() ![]() ![]() I do not think of suicide as the act, the death, the fall from a height or the trigger pulled. I do not understand suicide as a response to pain, or as a message to the living. "Suicide is a natural history, a disease process, not an act or a choice, a decision or a wish. "When telling the story of my illness, I try not to speak about depression. In it, he seeks to reframe our understanding of suicide. His brave, moving new memoir, One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, will be released on Tuesday, Oct. Antrim has since expanded that essay into book form. The New Yorker story was harrowing-a detailed description of Antrim's near-suicide in Brooklyn in April 2006 and his subsequent hospitalizations and experiences with treatments like electroconvulsive therapy. ![]()
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