Stay: A History of Suicide and Philosophies Against It

Jennifer Michael Hecht
(Adult Nonfiction - 179.7 Hec)

Worldwide, 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 andhistorian 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.


Anxiety and Mental Health

  • That's Not What Happened


  • This Song Will Save Your Life


  • Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism


  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story


  • Finding Audrey


  • Goodbye Days


  • Anxiety: a very short introduction


  • History is All You Left Me


  • All the Bright Places


  • Stay: A History of Suicide and Philosophies Against It


  • The Astonishing Color of After


  • My Heart and Other Black Holes


  • Fear and Anxiety


  • Challenger Deep


  • Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets


  • Symptoms of Being Human


  • 50 things you can do today to manage anxiety


  • The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry, & Panic


  • Standard Deviation


  • All That I Can Fix


  • Sorry to Disrupt the Peace


  • When I Cast Your Shadow


  • Yoga for your mind and body: a teenage practice for a healthy, balanced life


  • A Quiet Kind of Thunder


  • Darius the Great is Not Okay


  • Turtles All the Way Down


  • The Memory of Light


  • Stupid Fast


  • 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-being


  • When We Collided


  • Dreaming of Antigone