Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max

David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”

Article on the writer David Foster Wallace who committed suicide on Sep 12th 2008. He battled with depression.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant

"Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being"-dfw, dfw's writing after infinite jest, struggle with depression, portrait of older dfw, some biography

I hate the term 'assisted suicide'. I have witnessed the aftermath of two suicides, and as a journalist I attended far too many coroners' inquests, where I was amazed and appalled at the many ways that desperate people find to end their lives. Suicide is fear, shame, despair and grief. It is madness. Those brave souls lately seeking death abroad seem to me, on the other hand, to be gifted with a furious sanity. They have seen their future, and they don't want to be part of it.

Terry Pratchett's thoughts on assisted suicide.

Must make a copy of this.

Moving!

Sir Terry Pratchett has made an emotional plea for the right to take his own life, saying: 'I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed.'

You are more than your virtual identity. Pass away and leave your virtual ID behind.

Facebook Suicide

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