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Against Amery's approach
1. Writing in a sort of Wittgensteinian context, Amery keeps silent about certain things: for instance that the suicidal person is a kind hero who escapes Hell and, not unlike Kirillov, almost a God-like individual who destroys his divine possession.
2. Paraphrasing Rilke, the slogan of this book may be “You should kill yourself”. Not to be moralistic - suicide is indeed freedom -, I would choose, like Buddha, the dimming of the will-to-life rather than the will-to-death.