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Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:00
Publish Date: 2015-12-10 11:00:00
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Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves

Stay. That’s the message that philosopher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht puts at the center of her unusual writing about suicide. She’s traced how the history of Western civilization has, at times, demonized those who commit suicide, and, at times, celebrated it as a moral freedom. She has struggled with suicidal places in her life and lost friends to it. As a scholar, she’s now proposing a new cultural reckoning with suicide, based not on morality or on rights but on our essential need for each other.
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