Suicide


Art Film Literature


Art


David, Jacques-Louis     The Death of Socrates
Kahlo, Frida     El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
Picasso, Pablo     The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    The Tragedy
Ryder, Albert Pinkham     The Race Track or Death on a Pale Horse
Van Gogh, Vincent     Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis


Film


    21 Grams
    Antonia's Line
    Article 99
    The Belly of an Architect
    The Bridge
    Death in the Seine
    Death on Request
    Dr. Monica
    The Eighth Day
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    Melancholia
    Memento
    Million Dollar Baby
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Murderball
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Ordinary People
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Sixth Happiness
    Spellbound
    Sylvia
    Talk to Her (hable con ella)
    Thin
    Three Colors: Blue
    Who the Hell Is Juliette? [Quién diablos es Juliette?]
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    World's Greatest Dad
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Abse, Dannie     The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
Adair, Virginia Hamilton     Exit Amor
    One Ordinary Evening
Adler, C. S.     The Shell Lady's Daughter
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Atwood, Margaret     The Blind Assassin
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Bambara, Toni Cade     The Salt Eaters
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bauer, Mark S., ed.     A Mind Apart
Beagle, Peter S.     Come Lady Death
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Bontemps, Arna W.     A Summer Tragedy
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Buchner, Georg     Woyzeck
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Morphine
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     The Chinese Lobster
Camus, Albert     The Plague
Capek, Karel     Vertigo
Carey, Peter     The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carver, Raymond     What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Cather, Willa     Paul's Case
Chao, Patricia     Monkey King: A Novel
Chaon, Dan     Fitting Ends
Charach, Ron     Petrushkin!
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Examining Magistrate
    Ivanov
    On Official Business
    The Seagull
    Volodya
Chopin, Kate     The Awakening
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Courtemanche, Gil     A Good Death
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Judas Tree
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
d'Arzo, Silvio (Ezio Comparoni)     The House of Others
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
Dickens, Charles     Doctor Marigold
Dickinson, Emily     The heart asks pleasure first
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dorner, Marjorie     Seasons of Sun and Rain
Drabble, Margaret     The Seven Sisters
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Estrin, Marc     Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Findley, Timothy     Dreams
    Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
FitzGerald, James     What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Attempt to Redeem the Past
Flaubert, Gustave     Madame Bovary
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foden, Giles     Ladysmith
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Frey, James     My Friend Leonard
Fugard, Athol     The Road to Mecca
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
Garcia Morales, Adelaida     The South
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von     The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goldsworthy, Peter     This Goes with This
    Wish
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Grant, Cynthia     Shadow Man
Green, Gerald     To Brooklyn with Love
Guterson, David     East of the Mountains
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hadas, Pamela White     To Make a Dragon Move: From the Diary of an Anorexic
Harjo, Joy     The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hearle, Kevin     In Memorium
Hemingway, Ernest     A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
Hornby, Nick     A Long Way Down
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Huyler, Frank     The Dead Lake
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ibsen, Henrik     Ghosts
James, Henry     The Turn of the Screw
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jamison, Kay Redfield     Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
    An Unquiet Mind
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Kafka, Franz     In the Penal Colony
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Keats, John     Ode on Melancholy
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kirschner, Elizabeth     My Life as a Doll
Kunitz, Stanley     The Portrait
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lessing, Doris     To Room Nineteen
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Livingstone, Douglas     The Visionary
Lodge, David     Deaf Sentence
    Thinks . . .
London, Jack     Semper Idem
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Lorca, Federico Garcia     The House of Bernarda Alba
Lynch, Thomas     Still Life in Milford
Lynn, Tracy     Rx
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     Felix Krull
Martin, Steve     The Pleasure of My Company
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Lord Mountdrago
    Of Human Bondage
    The Painted Veil
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian     Amsterdam
    Enduring Love
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
McIntyre, Vonda N.     Dreamsnake
Menick, Stephen     Dr. Rapallo
Millay, Edna St. Vincent     Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    Comfort
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Murray, Les     Burning Want
Nazeer, Kamran     Send In The Idiots
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Norman, Marsha     'night, mother
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
O'Connor, Dee Mary     Talking with Dolores
O'Connor, Flannery     The Lame Shall Enter First
O'Neill, Eugene     The Iceman Cometh
Offutt, Chris     Barred Owl
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Percy, Walker     The Last Gentleman
    The Second Coming
Plath, Sylvia     The Bell Jar
    Lady Lazarus
    The Wishing Box
Prado, Carlos G.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Quindlen, Anna     One True Thing
Rabe, David     A Question of Mercy
Ray, David     The Hemlock Society
Robinson, David J.     Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Richard Cory
Roethke, Theodore     Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Rowe, Vernon     Sea Creatures and Other Poems
Sarton, May     As We Are Now
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Scully, Julia     Outside Passage
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sexton, Anne     You, Doctor Martin
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    Macbeth
    Othello
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     Mount Misery
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Simmons, Dan     The River Styx Runs Upstream
Simon, Claude     The Flanders Road
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Steinbeck, John     Cannery Row
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Styron, William     Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Taylor, Sandra J.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Urquhart, Jane     The Underpainter
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham     The Tennis Partner
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watson, Larry     Montana 1948
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
    Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
    When
Williams, Miller     A Day in the Death
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Yalom, Irvin     When Nietzsche Wept
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian