How to Be A Considerate Suicide

How to Be A Considerate Suicide

by Gabe Martinez Author and Jen Miller Author

It's important that this zine is not taken the wrong way as it could easily be misinterpreted. We do not encourage committing suicide. For anyone. Suicide is almost never the best path to resolving suffering or depression or pain. Even a few years ago we never would have featured anything like this in our catalog. But stumbling upon "The Good Son," an episode of This American Life about a mother who had planned her suicide across thirty years of careful consideration and thinking about how it would affect others in life, added other aspects to the narrative. This illustrated zine written by an LA coroner adds another layer about considerations to those left behind as well. Please don't read it as guide or as ironic but as part of a complex fabric of aging, suffering, and freedom to make the choices that are right for us considering that each of our lives are different. 

Comments & Reviews

1/8/2019

Seriously one of my favorite zines. I work in the deathcare industry and I used to buy copies for everyone I know.

9/23/2018

Any pdf version