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Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind’s Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. On Suicide Is Neither A Defense Of Suicide Nor An Invitation To Assisted Suicide, But An Analysis Of The State Of Mind Of Those Who Are Suicidal And Who Actually Do Commit Suicide. It Is Also A Strident Defense Of The Freedom Of The Individual And A Plea For The Recognition Of The Fact That We Belong To Ourselves Before Belonging To Another Person, Or An Institution, Nation, Or Religion, And That Our Right To Choose To End Our Life Can Have Priority Over Social Entanglements And Biological Destiny.--jacket. Before The Leap -- How Natural Is Death? -- To Lay Hands On Oneself -- Belonging To Oneself -- The Road To The Open. Jean Améry ; Translated By John D. Barlow. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [155]-160). ..". a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... " --Kirkus Reviews Jean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. Translator's Preface Translator's Introduction Preface I. Before the Leap II. How Natural is Death? III. To Lay Hands on Oneself IV. Belonging to Oneself V. The Road to the Open Notes