Amazon refuses to ban stepbystep suicide book used by mirror. Methods and consequences by geo stone is a cookbook. The complete manual of suicide, kanzen jisatsu manyuaru, lit. If you are seeking help dealing with depressive and suicidal thoughts this book is not for you. Complete suicide manual is a japanese book written by wataru tsurumi. Howto book on suicide is atop bestseller list the new. Also, as a reminder, this book will touch upon issues that some may find disturbing, depressing or taboo. A new book advising terminally ill people how to commit suicide has surged to no. It is not an uncommon experience to walk into a bookstore and leave with something you hadnt planned on purchasing, but this one is. The complete manual of suicide is a japanese book written by wataru tsurumi. I bought this book because i am interested in suicide as a concept, and i want to learn about it.
It was first published on july 4, 1993 and sold more than one million copies. The bad news was that we found an increase in the methods the book recommends, namely asphyxia by plastic bag, and this is a very lethal means of suicide, said dr. Suicide and attempted suicide by geo stone is generally acknowledged to be the most comprehensive work on methods of suicide, although the book is not currently in print, and obtaining a copy is expensive. The book is final exit by derek humphry, who is executive director of the hemlock society, an organization in. The most relevant data show that in the year after the publication of an earlier suicide methods book, final exit there was a small increase in the number of people using the books recommended methods from 3477 to 3751, but a small decrease in the overall number of suicides from 30,906 to 30,810. For information on the most lethal methods of suicide, a good starting point is the statistics on the number of successful suicides by method see suicide statistics. Perhaps there is someone out there with a method or a cure that will work for you a hypnotist, a magician, a genius of meditation or a doctor.
It focuses on methods of ending life using drugs, and has a lot of information about. Methods used in suicides follow book the new york times. Thirteen reasons why by jay asher, all the bright places by jennifer niven, the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, forgive m. The peaceful pill handbook is available as an ebook and is updated regularly. Consequently, reading this book, entitled how to commit a successful suicide, i found out that it is a book preaching the reasons why i should not kill myself. Howto book on suicide is atop bestseller list the new york times. In the united states, jumping is among the least common methods of suicide less than 2% of all reported suicides in the united states for 2005.