![]() He covered 11 categories of suicide methods:Įach chapter begins with a graph assessing the method in question in terms of: the pain it causes, effort of preparation required, the appearance of the body, the disturbance it may cause for others and its deadliness. ![]() He simply laid out the methods of suicide one by one and then analysed each of them in detail. It did rhetorically pose the question "why must one live?" but left the question unanswered. Since the book was intended to be a manual, the author did not spend too much ink on discussing the reasons and philosophy behind suicide. The book provides matter-of-fact assessment of each method in terms of the pain it causes, effort of preparation required, the appearance of the body and lethality. ![]() There is no preference shown for painless or dignified ways of ending one's life. ![]() Moreover, this is not a suicide manual for the terminally ill. This 198 page book provides explicit descriptions and analysis on a wide range of suicide methods such as overdosing, hanging, jumping, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc. It was first published on the 4th of July, 1993 and sold more than one million copies. "The Complete Manual of Suicide" ( Japanese: 完全自殺マニュアル) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi.
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