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

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

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

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