/dep/ - Depression★

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

>>297716
The last section of Chapter 8, The Future, is the best recognition I know of "the difficulty we yet find of standing on our feet with the old supports gone and the leading strings snapped." It must have been little read then and is forgotten now and that frustrates me. I found it on ebay's antiquarian section because I knew to look for consideration before the "unfamiliar new landscape" was quite so.
https://archive.org/details/the-future-of-suicide-1938

>>297717
>It must have been little read then and is forgotten now and that frustrates me.
Yes, I have been reading and buying other books about suicide recently but i had never even heard of this one. Yet it seems far better than the more popular and widely available books. Modern psychiatry books about suicide are really very bad

Is the full content of the book available anywhere online? Archive.org only seems to have early chapters and that last section?

>>297719
It seems the new "complex difficulty of the time" is how to keep these complaints swept under the rug.

>>297721
Only what I've uploaded so far. When I have a pdf for every chapter I'll upload the whole book in one. Now there's chapter 4: the classical age.
https://archive.org/details/suicide-fedden-1938/Suicide_Chapter_4.pdf

>>297723
Thank you, I will save the archive link and check again in future

>>297724
Save my page instead.
https://archive.org/details/@person_non-person
I'll upload the whole book and another with each chapter as a separate pdf, then delete this one where only the first three chapters are included in the main upload.

Now it's chapters 1-5
https://archive.org/details/suicide-a-social-and-historical-study
I. Introduction
II. Servant and Widow
III. Suicide Horror and the Savage
IV. Liberty to Die (Ancient)
V. Fate of the Wise Men (Medieval)

Chapter VIII section III. The Future
https://archive.org/details/the-future-of-suicide-1938

Cover, title, contents

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Servant and Widow

Chapter III.
The Suicide Horror and the Savage

My advice to anyone reading up on suicide is to find something better to do with your time lmao

>>298213
Very convincing. Telling someone that feels like shit and is probably a neet to stop wasting time. They probably don't have the ability to comprehend the analogy of working a job and how that sucks up all ur time so u learn to value ur time better.

>>298213
"… antidotes to isolation, shelters from reality, combatants against silence and fear… are merely palliative however. They may be said to delay effectively the number of suicides that are demanded from men by the evolution of individuality and the final acquisition of the power to stand alone."

"Suicide is testimony to the difficulty which we yet find of standing on our feet with the old supports gone and the leading strings snapped."

"… the horror of a landscape where nothing but the individual throws a shadow down the perspective from birth to the grave. The inevitability of death then becomes only less inescapable than the personal responsibility of living. Meanwhile, suicide is the price paid by many to view the unfamiliar new landscape. The transition to self-sufficiency has often lain for the weak, unfortunate and misplaced via self-destruction. Such deaths, which have been multiplying for a hundred years, are one of the oddly distributed taxes that are levied against gigantic change."

"The past centuries had no such need of suicide. For this century there always remains free access to the reliable panacea of death. It is one of the gentle compensations created by, and for, the complex difficulty of the time. Such a compensation should grow more and more unnecessary as individuals accustom themselves to the new lie of the land."

No living better placed person around me will admit of my circumstance so I go to old books. This is the best of them under the new conditions.