On: Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance

[netfortius]

Harvard study authors never read Emil Cioran.

[Viability1936 → netfortius]

Why do you say that - are you referencing something specific or just a point about his framing of existence? I just finished "a short history of decay"

[netfortius → Viability1936]

Cioran claimed to have been able to avoid killing himself by fully embracing the idea of suicide.

[gowld → netfortius]

Cioran was a pessimist and a nihilist (and a blowhard) and interested in the idea of suicide, but never suicidal in the first place.

[netfortius → gowld]

He denied being a nihilist, himself, multiple times, as well as those having studied his work. He was an extreme sceptic.

[cottsak → netfortius]

I'd like to understand this quip better as well

[Pannoniae → netfortius]

Thank you for opening my horizons :)