abject subjects, 3, 34, 37, 174, 181, 200, 209
ableist/sanist/ageist framework, 16, 37, 38, 77, 148, 192, 202, 233, 237
ableist/sanist/ageist/suicidist framework, 8–9, 22, 85, 193–196, 208–218, 227, 237, 249, 255–257
abnormality, 11, 35, 46, 63, 74, 108, 161, 191, 202
abolitionist approach, 9–10, 21, 32, 136, 149–150, 214, 235, 254–257
accessibility, xi, 27–28, 37, 44, 94, 177, 203–208, 257
access to assisted suicide, 145–148, 156, 157, 168, 175–180, 185–191, 197, 200–208, 210, 215, 226, 231, 238, 255, 271n16, 271n17, 271n22
accommodation, 177, 204–210; logic of, 37, 202–206, 210; retrofits, 204–207, 210, 257
accompaniment: focus on, 20–21, 70, 90–91, 235–236, 260; logic of, 16–17; process of, 21, 38, 183, 220, 231, 236; queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, 213, 218, 220, 227, 231, 235–236, 243; in suicide-affirmative approach, 218, 220, 227, 231, 235–236, 243
accountability: to lived experiences of suicidal people, 21, 190, 216; physician-assisted suicide and, 146; from policy makers, 60; politics of, 216; toward queer and trans people, 110–111; toward suicidal people, 14, 33, 35, 86–87, 97, 123, 133, 169, 170, 255
affective turn, 10, 31, 216, 219
affects, negative: agency and heuristic political value, 123–130, 134; embracing, 123–130, 162; queer antisocial turn, 31, 36; queering and transing suicidality, 101; repression of suicidal affects, 28; sociopolitical conditions and, 153
Agamben, Giorgio, 247, 261n4, 273n44
ageism: ableist/sanist/ageist/suicidist ontology of assisted suicide, 8, 22, 85, 208, 214, 227, 237; ageist perspective, 3, 5, 9, 13, 73, 77, 99, 111, 209–210, 226, 233; assisted suicide laws and, 143, 146, 148, 180, 237, 249, 254, 255, 256–257; intersectionality and, 30–31, 43, 97, 220; in libertarian and neoliberal perspective, 80, 81; logic of accommodation, 37, 202, 207; logic of disposability, 16, 34, 38, 218, 240, 254–255; right-to-die movement and, 143, 146, 148, 170, 177, 180–181, 184, 192, 193–195, 197–198, 200, 202, 207, 208, 209–210, 216, 218; in “suicide epidemic” discourse, 99
agency: disposability culture and, 240; in ethics of wonder and generosity, 58; illusion of, 61; invalidation of, 36, 72, 92, 169, 175, 219, 252; in medicalization of suicide, 47; in mental capacity arguments, 43; of negative affect, 123–130, 134; of people in crisis, 231; sanism and, 169, 190, 191, 199; of suicidal people, 109, 118, 156, 175, 179, 190, 213, 216; of trans people, 215; youthism and, 17
Ahmed, Sara, 10, 11, 12, 23, 31, 75, 102, 123, 128, 130–131, 268n18
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 64–65
Alcoff, Linda Martín, 26, 69–70
Alcorn, Leelah, 98–101, 110, 134, 168
alienation, 8, 11, 73, 93, 96, 211, 216, 237; alienated subjects, 157; health care and, 122; lens of, 258; political, 89, 92, 237, 241; social, 12, 219
allies, 26–27
Alternatives to Suicide, 118–119
American Association of Suicidology (AAS), 178, 189
Améry, Jean, 78–79
anglonormativity, 27–28
Ansloos, Jeffrey, 30
anti-ableist perspectives, 9, 27, 38, 82, 110, 144, 148, 216, 236, 265n34, 267n57
anti-oppression: ableism, 161; activists/scholars, 9, 25, 33, 38, 43, 72–73, 101, 190; circles, 13, 23, 29, 30, 33, 141, 161, 225, 236, 254; diversity arguments, 87; harm reduction arguments, 225; individualistic choice argument, 86; irrationality arguments, 236; lack of alliances, 181; LGBTQ suicidality discourses, 103–117; medical assistance in dying law and, 254; mental capacity arguments, 190; ontologies of suicide and assisted suicide, 9, 38, 209, 211, 212, 217; oppression of suicidal people in, 7, 23–30; pathological, individualistic explanations for suicidal individuals, 72; predominance of social and social justice models, 45, 165–166; queercrip model and, 212, 217, 218, 249; right-to-die discourses, 177–197, 212, 217, 218; sanism and, 72–73, 161; somatechnologies of life and, 101, 103–117, 141, 177–197; suicide as barometer of oppression, 13; suicidism and, 43–44; on “survivors,” 64; taboo of suicidality in, 141; use of the phrase, 261n3; values of, 16
anti-oppressive: approach(es) 38, 43–45, 70, 79–81, 85–87, 97, 165–166, 176–177, 181, 197, 210, 212, 217, 239, 249; social movements/fields of study, 7, 13, 14, 16, 26, 27, 64, 166, 181, 209, 211, 261n3; value(s), 184, 218
anti-psychiatry movement, 32, 81, 136–137, 148, 158–159, 222, 236, 254
anti-sanist perspectives, 9, 27, 82, 160, 162, 199, 216, 236, 266n41
antisocial queer perspective, 124–130
antisocial turn, 31, 124, 129–130, 216
anti-suicidist: framework, 13, 22, 25, 100, 130, 214–215, 220, 221, 240, 268n14; lens, 19; movement, 7, 11, 258; perspective, 20, 24, 114, 125, 208, 214
assisted suicide, definition of, 8
austerity, 16, 38, 54–55, 57, 60, 153, 218, 270n18
autonomy: bodily, 16, 127, 194, 268n16; individual, 37, 71, 81, 84, 138, 142–148, 154, 169, 176, 180, 191, 194, 197, 237, 241–242, 265n34, 271n8; relational, 155, 157, 222, 226, 236–237, 240–241, 250
autothanatotheory, 28–33
Batavia, Andrew, 145–146
Battin, Margaret Pabst, 45, 46, 181, 187, 188
Bauer, Greta R., 98–99, 104, 113
BayatRizi, Zohreh, 47, 48, 131, 193
Bayliss, Graeme, 67, 190, 201, 219, 229
Ben-Moshe, Liat, 9–10, 21, 32, 136, 214, 235, 255
Berlant, Lauren, 3, 10, 31, 35, 102, 124, 132–133, 207–208, 246
Bernheim, Emmanuelle, 189
binary categories, 24–26, 100–101, 130, 138, 143, 162, 202–203, 209
bioethics, 2, 14, 31, 137, 147, 175–178, 187, 191–192, 197, 199, 200, 237
biopolitics, 37, 47, 51, 128, 209, 232, 237, 241, 247–248, 263n10
biopower, 37, 47, 51, 73, 76, 102, 126, 128, 131, 193, 209, 232, 241, 248, 263n10
biopsychosocial model of suicidality. See public health model of suicidality bodymind, 73, 99, 135, 266n45
Bornstein, Kate, 105–106, 116, 268n10
Braswell, Harold, 147
Burstow, Bonnie, 75, 136, 137, 158–159, 254–255, 266n53, 269n1, 270n23
Button, Mark E., 54, 56–57, 60, 61, 64, 70, 151–152, 237, 264n20
Campbell, Fiona Kumari, 4
capitalism, 4–5, 9, 11, 30, 37–38, 45, 54, 63, 73, 79–81, 86, 124–125, 131, 146, 148, 153, 168, 179, 184, 194–195, 200, 216, 220, 268n11
carceral cultures and contexts, 144, 151
carceral ideologies and structures, 140
carceral logic, 10, 16, 32, 136
care, moral and political economy of, 12
Chandler, Amy, 33, 88, 123, 224
Chandler, Eliza, 211
Chivers, Sally, 218
Chrisjohn, Roland, 30
chronic pain, 3, 137, 164, 198
chronic suicidality, 25, 231, 247
cisgenderism, 5, 7, 8, 13, 19, 29, 30, 32, 35, 66, 87, 97, 99, 100, 103–105, 108, 111–114, 117, 133–134, 136, 145, 160, 163, 168, 169, 174–175, 194, 215, 216, 220, 222, 240–241, 254; cisgenderist violence, 13, 103, 108, 111–113, 174, 228, 237, 239; (cis)gender ontology, 194; cis/trans interactions, 221
cisnormativity, 19, 22, 113, 134, 163, 174, 194, 196, 203, 215, 267n4
Clare, Eli, 15, 135–136, 157, 160
classism, 5, 7, 16, 27, 30, 31, 35, 43, 80, 86, 97, 111, 125, 133, 136, 146, 153, 161, 186, 239
coercive prevention strategy/strategies/measures, 35, 36, 62, 64, 79, 80, 83, 103, 116–119, 121–123, 130, 133, 149, 152, 155, 157–158, 162, 170, 222
cogniticism, 27, 37, 71, 180, 183–184, 189, 226, 262n9, 265n34
Coleman, Diane, 142–143, 155, 157
Colen, Cynthia, 20, 51, 53, 55, 56, 263n11
Collins, Susan E., 223–224
colonialism, 7–9, 11, 16, 29–32, 35, 38, 43, 60, 68, 86, 87, 111–112, 131, 133, 153, 161, 216, 220, 228, 252, 264n24, 265n35, 267n4, 270n18; disposability and, 86; insurrectionist epistemologies and, 87; psychopolitics of austerity and, 153; queer and trans people and, 111; subaltern, 68, 252, 265n35; suicidal regimes and, 60
community-based initiatives, 115, 131
compassion, 14, 21–22, 42, 132, 148, 181, 216, 219, 222–224, 231, 239–240
competence, 67, 72, 155, 174, 177, 188–191, 226, 237, 265n34, 266n43. See also mental competence; mental incompetence compulsory able-bodiedness, 4, 11, 15, 31, 74, 75
compulsory able-mindedness, 11, 15, 31, 74, 75
compulsory aliveness, 11–16, 22–24, 28, 31, 35–36, 74–76, 92–93, 102, 107, 110, 126, 128–129, 131–132, 134, 140, 151, 153, 155, 170, 194, 203, 206, 210, 212, 213, 217, 221, 237, 245, 247, 249, 258
compulsory cissexuality, 134
compulsory heterosexuality, 74, 75
compulsory ontology of pathology, 32, 38, 49, 217
contagion, suicide, 20, 124, 222, 243, 244, 263n12, 273n5
conversation(s) about suicidality, 10, 41, 62, 65–66, 106, 109, 118, 121, 141, 213, 231, 259
conversion therapies, 12, 13, 99
copycat suicides, 20, 53, 263n12
Corriveau, Patrice, 257
crazy, 11, 53, 67, 72, 108, 139, 141, 149, 160, 161, 194, 199, 216, 236
criminalization, 4, 12, 14, 41, 48, 64–65, 80, 83, 97, 158, 161, 223
cripistemology, 26–27, 36, 140, 163, 168
cripistemology of pain, 198, 270n26
cripping, xiv, 24, 32, 36–37, 163, 210; of assisted suicide, 177, 214, 249; of (assisted) suicide, 202–203, 214, 216, 258; of right-to-die, 181, 248; of right-to-die discourses, 202–208; of stigma of suicide, 178; of suicidality, 36, 138–140, 163, 168–170; use of the term, 138–139, 269n6
crip studies, 10, 25, 27, 33, 34, 37, 136–138, 140, 163, 165, 177, 203, 253, 261n3
crip theory, xiv, 31, 74, 139, 262n8
crises: emotional, 226, 236; mental health, 150, 159, 170, 227
crisis, people/person in, 56, 121, 150, 157, 222, 226–227, 231, 236
critical suicide studies, 58
Critical Suicide Studies Network, 25
critical suicidology, 8, 14, 19, 20, 55, 57, 69, 70, 72, 73, 88–89, 92–94, 209, 213–214, 231, 253, 258; assisted suicide and, 175–176; (critical) suicidology, 72, 121, 134, 175, 176; disability/madness and, 139–140, 148, 151–154, 163; features of, 58–60; LGBTQ suicidal people and, 101–102, 107, 111, 121, 123–124, 126, 134; normality of suicidal ideation, 94; social justice approach and, 32–33, 55; suicide notes and, 69, 70–71; use of the phrase, 263n15
Crow, Liz, 164
cruel optimism, 31, 35–36, 37, 102, 132–134, 207–208, 210, 213, 246, 268n19
c/s/x community, 148–149
curative ideology, 15–17, 24, 87, 92, 135, 149, 154, 162, 166–167
cure: ableism and, 168; for bodyminds, 135–136; causes of suicidality and, 166–167; compulsory aliveness and, 75, 126–127; desiring a, 15; logic of cure and prevention, 4, 16; medical model and, 163; medical/psychiatric, 5, 132, 149; political, 132; promise of better days and, 35, 102, 128, 132, 161–162, 246; social cures, 5; social model and, 164; suicidal futurity and, 247
Cvetkovich, Ann, 6, 10–11, 75, 102, 126–127, 129–130, 247
danger, discourse of, 106, 149–150, 199
danger to self or others, 141, 149–150, 152, 157, 189
Davis, Lennard J., 146
death-affirming support, 16–17, 131, 218, 243
death drive, 31, 36, 124, 128, 134
death studies, 33, 248. See also queer death studies; thanatology decision-making: biased, 236–237; capacity, 71, 154, 177, 183, 188, 199, 236, 265n34, 266n43; decision-makers, 88, 207, 227; impact of mental illness on, 190–191; process, 85, 236, 259
decriminalization, 48, 84, 179, 235
depathologization: of Mad people, 137; of marginalized groups, 82; of negative feelings, 11; of queer and trans suicidality, 117; of suicidal ideation and attempts, 106; of suicidality, 10, 22, 78, 117; of suicide, 84, 243; of trans identities, 162
depression, 3, 4, 41, 46, 85, 149, 174, 186, 188, 199, 201, 271n16; antidepressants, 159, 245; disability and, 137–138, 143; as mental disability, xv, 137–138, 168; negative affect and, 10–11, 126–127, 130; political, 247; sanism and, 147, 154; silencing of, 156; social factors and, 52, 86, 87, 126–127; socio-subjective model and, 36, 165–166
desire to die, 2, 5, 8, 11, 28–29, 35, 41, 62, 72–74, 86, 96, 110, 112, 143, 145, 156, 169, 189, 216–217, 224, 237–239, 244, 246, 252; ableism and, 143, 145; in absence of, 196; in absence of physical disability/sickness/illness, 191; creative skill and, 156; living with a, 249; medical bracelet as symbol of, 5–6; sanism and, 72, 73; sanist/ageist/suicidist ontological script, 196; somatechnologies of life and, 246; validity of reasons for, 196, 202–203; voicing, 8, 96, 208, 217, 219, 232, 258
desire to live, 11, 23, 62, 74, 104, 132, 156, 231–232, 248–249, 256
despair, 4, 11, 42, 54, 129, 138, 143–145, 153, 166, 192, 239, 243, 247–248, 252, 271n16
destigmatization: of (assisted) suicide, 230, 232; of suicidality, 22, 26, 63, 83, 87, 117–118, 215, 235, 239, 243, 267n57
diagnosis, 119, 186, 188, 193–194, 196, 200, 201, 227, 263n6, 272n22
Dignitas, 193
dignity, 37, 145, 146, 151, 156, 176, 178, 180, 184, 193, 201
disability activists/scholars, 8, 13, 134, 142–148, 151, 154, 198, 203, 211, 221, 239
disability burn-out, 145
disability/crip/Mad activists/scholars, 140, 157, 253–254
disability/crip/Mad ethos, 8, 152
disability/crip/Mad studies, 27, 36, 140, 163, 165, 177, 203, 253
disability/crip studies, 25, 33, 34, 37, 136, 137
disability justice movement, 36, 140, 159, 160–161, 183, 203, 207–208, 233, 254
disability/Mad activists/scholars, 36, 72, 136–137, 140, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 163, 169–170, 197
disability/Mad communities, 138, 142, 163, 170
disability/Mad movements, 149, 158, 168, 181, 185, 209
disability/madness: at center of critical suicidology discussion, 139; eradication of, 136, 248; medical model and, 163
disability/Mad perspectives, 141, 151, 158–159
disability/Mad studies, 8–9, 72, 82, 151, 154, 155, 190
disability studies, 68, 115, 136, 146–147, 162–163, 265n34
disabled/Mad people, 14, 27, 32, 61, 94, 96, 136–137, 140, 142, 149, 153–164, 168–169, 180, 207
disabled/Mad suicidality, 140–142, 154–162, 169–170
disabled/sick/ill/Mad/old people, 148, 180, 197, 200–201, 202, 212, 220, 235
disabled/sick/ill/Mad people, 149, 161, 166, 175, 180, 194, 195, 197, 204–205, 207
disabled/sick/ill/old people, 3–5, 11, 22, 34, 44, 74, 125, 184, 198, 200, 233, 255, 268n8
disabled/sick/ill people, 147, 151–152, 175, 176, 179–180, 184, 185, 187, 191, 197, 200, 206, 224, 239, 253
discharged, 62, 66, 118–120, 121–123, 134, 221, 231
disposability: culture, 9, 10, 86, 143, 153, 175, 186, 239, 240, 254; logic of, 16, 34, 38, 181, 218, 240–241, 254–255
distress, 10, 51, 54, 67, 115, 119, 121–122, 129, 150, 153, 155, 159, 162, 166, 174, 183, 208, 215, 228, 232, 240, 243
DNR (do not resuscitate order), 1–6
Dolmage, Jay, 27, 203–207, 273n43
dominant groups, 23–24, 26, 87–89, 91, 185, 238, 258
Dorais, Michel, 60, 104–105, 113, 116
Douglas, Jack D., 52–53
Downie, Jocelyn, 225, 226, 238, 271n8
Durkheim, Émile, 52–53, 54, 263n11
duty to stay alive, 18, 23, 47, 131, 151
Dying With Dignity Canada, 201
Edelman, Lee, 31, 102, 127–130
emergency department, 5, 192, 234
emergency services, 2, 35, 66, 96, 120, 122, 133, 150, 157, 159, 170, 228
empowerment, 17, 85, 120, 127, 156, 183, 224, 227
end-of-life: care, 209; decisions, 147, 152; plan, 219; support, 178
Engelhart, Katie, 181–184, 194–195
epistemic communities, 88, 258
epistemic death, 35, 88, 95–96
epistemic disobedience, 88, 257
epistemic injustice, 44, 91–92, 101, 131, 202, 247, 267n59, 267n61
epistemic insurrection, 88
epistemic justice, 58, 212, 228
epistemic silencing, 94–95, 96
epistemic violence, 34, 35, 44, 87–88, 91, 95, 149, 156, 200
epistemologies, 12, 29, 35, 51, 100, 101, 217, 252; autotheory and, 29; Black epistemology, 26, 87, 89, 216; Black feminist epistemology, 252–253; cripistemology, 26–27, 36, 140, 163, 168; cripistemology of pain, 198, 270n26; dis-epistemology, 21, 214, 235; dominant epistemologies, 29, 252; epistemology of ignorance, 88–91; epistemology of resistance, 34, 89, 91, 256; feminist epistemology, 26, 252–253; insurrectionist epistemologies, 87; liberatory epistemologies, 26, 29, 87, 216; queer epistemology, 26; suicidal epistemology, 17, 26, 28, 78, 216, 253; technologies and, 12, 101; trans epistemology, 24, 26, 31, 216
equality: de jure versus de facto, 80; moral, 151
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne Dominique, 49
ethics of living, 38, 211, 217, 232, 246–249
euthanasia, 137, 173, 175, 181, 184, 186, 199, 232, 234; involuntary, 147, 179, 215, 225–226, 272n29; voluntary, 8, 143, 179, 225–226, 261n5, 271n9, 272n28
exceptionalism, 124–125, 143–144, 150–152, 192, 205, 206
Exit International, 182, 184, 218
expertise, 50, 60, 88, 194, 216, 222, 228, 240, 250
experts, 68–69, 120, 190, 219, 252
ex-suicidal people, 26, 70, 82, 88, 93–94, 265n38
failure, 23, 31, 36, 42, 65, 102, 123–133, 134, 159, 174, 216, 247, 248, 265n35
Falret, Jean-Pierre, 50
Fireweed Collective, 150–151, 155
Fitzpatrick, Scott J., 12, 33, 46, 47, 48, 49, 52, 57, 59, 88, 262n7, 267n59
forced intervention(s), 66, 119, 160
forced treatment(s), 35–36, 64, 72, 75, 80, 136, 149, 152, 252, 255; and hospitalization, 149, 152, 159, 170
Foucault, Michel, 12, 37, 47, 73, 76, 77–78, 101, 128, 174, 263n10, 266n49, 266n51
Fricker, Miranda, 91–93, 95–96, 267n61
Friedan, Betty, 43
Froese Sakal, Jocelyn, 270n17
frustration-aggression model, 52
Fullagar, Simone, 63, 211, 247, 273n4
future and futurity: better, 133, 155, 166–167, 246, 268n11; blocked or delayed, 248–249; crip, 31–32, 216, 246–247, 274n14; injunction to, 11–18, 24, 35–36, 62, 67, 71–76, 87, 96–97, 102, 110, 126–134, 138, 144, 152, 192, 206, 210, 217, 219, 221, 249, 258; lack of, 248–249; queer, 129; suicidal, 8, 15–16, 28, 211, 247, 249
Galasiński, Dariusz, 69
Gandsman, Ari Edward, 181–184, 187, 197–198, 199, 201
gatekeepers and gatekeeping, 12, 193–194; accommodation gatekeeping, 205, 207; doctors as gatekeepers, 3, 4; medical-industrial complex as gatekeeper, 242; toward suicidal people, 56, 194, 207, 227; toward transgender people, 122, 193–194, 227
gender identity, 12, 19, 97, 99, 101, 104, 111–116, 124, 174, 203, 186, 215, 242–243, 267n4
gerontologists, 180, 197, 198, 268n8
Gill, Carol J., 143–145, 155–157
Goh, Irving, 28
Greensmith, Cameron, 270n17
guilt, 7, 18, 52, 53, 160, 219, 230
Halberstam, Jack, 31, 102, 112, 124, 125–126, 129, 130
Hamraie, Aimi, 203, 207, 208, 258
happiness: burden of, 131, 133, 134; duty of, 23, 123, 131, 132; indicators, 131; injunction to, 11, 31, 75, 102, 124, 266n47, 268n18; normative, 124, 128; of others, 131–132
harm reduction, 16, 38, 106, 127, 148, 158, 214, 220, 223–225, 232, 243, 250, 268n16, 273n7, 273n8
health care: decisions, 189, 245; gatekeepers and gatekeeping, 3, 4, 56, 242; professionals, 4, 23, 55, 63–64, 70, 76, 89, 92–93, 143, 178, 193–194, 196, 206, 215, 226–227; system, 73, 81, 121–122, 142–143, 186, 207–208, 242, 248, 256. See also suicide-affirmative health care Hecht, Jennifer Michael, 18, 19–20, 47, 48, 63
hermeneutical death, 95–96
hermeneutical ignorance, 85, 93, 95, 219
hermeneutical injustice, 35, 43, 44, 91–93, 95
hermeneutical marginalization, 35, 91–93, 219
heteronormativity, 124, 125, 128, 174, 267n4
heterosexism, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 16, 29–30, 66, 87, 144–145, 169, 174, 216, 220, 237; compulsory heterosexuality, 74, 75; disability justice and, 160; disposability culture and, 175, 239; heterosexist violence, 16, 228, 268n19; intersectionality and, 43, 220; social justice model and, 60; socio-
subjective model and, 169; suicidality discourse and, 32, 86, 99–100, 103–105, 111–114, 116–117, 134, 144–145, 267n4
Hewitt, Jeanette, 191
Hill Collins, Patricia, 252–253, 267n61
Ho, Anita, 239
Hooker, Claire, 47, 49, 52, 58, 59
hope, 4, 56, 94, 108–109, 125–127, 129, 133, 201–202, 245–247, 258
hopelessness, 111, 138, 142, 155, 201–202, 245
Horwitz, Allan V., 51
hotline(s), 4, 15, 66, 96, 120, 122, 159, 170, 195
Icarus Project. See Fireweed Collective identity-first language, 25–26
identity politics, 26, 69, 149
Ignagni, Esther, 211
ignorance: active, 88, 89; hermeneutical, 85, 93, 95, 219; willful, 258
imagination(s), 15–16, 21–22, 28, 31, 42, 89, 101, 129, 214–217, 258
impulsivity, 37, 47, 106, 156, 176, 191, 199, 202, 209, 215
incarceration, 8–9, 12, 14, 24, 32, 41, 42, 65, 67, 76, 95, 97, 106, 136, 138, 149, 157, 170, 223, 233, 252, 255–256
incompetence, mental, 72, 93, 189–190, 200, 207
incompetent, 4, 48, 71, 92, 146, 154, 189–191, 199, 207
Indigenous people, 4, 10, 14, 20, 29, 30, 103, 136, 254
informed consent, 2, 16, 17, 31, 67, 72, 127, 188, 215, 219–220, 268n16
informed consent model of care, 38, 219, 225–227, 250
injunction to happiness, 123, 124
injunction to live and to futurity, 7, 11–12, 14, 16, 24, 35–36, 58, 62, 63, 67, 71–76, 87, 96, 97, 102, 110, 126–132, 134, 138, 144, 152, 155, 192, 206, 210, 217, 219, 221, 249, 258, 268n18
injunction to stay alive, 6, 102, 155
insanity, 49, 71–72, 160; insane, 11, 47, 53, 71–72, 156, 160, 216
interference, 9, 77, 80, 81, 82, 169, 194
intersectionality, 22, 30–31, 38, 43, 45, 97, 150, 160, 162, 176, 181, 203, 207–208, 214, 222, 237, 241; access and, 203, 207; disabled/Mad suicidality and, 140, 152, 160, 270n18; intersectional research, xvi, 30–31; intersectional thanatopolitics, 37, 208, 210; queer and trans suicidality and, 111, 113, 118, 133–134; right-to-die movement and, 181, 183, 186, 197; social justice model and, 45; suicide-affirmative approach and, 220, 222
intervention(s), 9, 11–12, 14–17, 30, 33, 42, 56, 57, 68, 79, 82–83, 102, 113, 115, 131, 133, 135, 143, 145, 150, 159–162, 166, 202, 206, 214–215, 218, 221, 224–225, 231, 234, 239, 253, 256, 258–259, 268n16; coercive intervention(s), 118–122, 162, 222, 270n23; nonconsensual interventions, 4, 36, 222, 231
involuntary commitment, 83, 120–121, 192, 223, 252
involuntary hospitalization, 42, 72, 76, 83–84, 119, 121, 157, 266n48
involuntary treatment, 149, 223, 234, 252
irrationality, xiii–xiv, 11, 37, 46, 47, 67, 71, 72, 89, 92, 97, 101, 106, 131, 139, 154, 156, 161, 176, 177, 180, 191, 192, 197, 199, 200, 209, 211, 216, 235, 236, 237, 241. See also rationality irrational suicide, 53, 85, 177, 178, 188, 199, 201–202
irremediable pain, 143, 152, 187, 188, 191, 207, 245
isolation, 16, 20, 43, 73, 110, 111, 113, 119, 130, 132, 155, 161, 169, 228, 240, 249
It Gets Better (campaign), 112–113, 125–126, 268n11
“it gets better” (slogan or saying), 98, 105
Jacob, Jean Daniel, 76
Jaworski, Katrina, 19, 26, 33, 58, 59, 101, 102, 111, 216, 224, 267n59, 273n4
Joiner, Thomas, 50, 64, 72, 243, 263n13
Kafer, Alison, 10, 15, 31, 74–75, 126, 164, 165, 166–167, 198, 212, 246–248, 266n46
Kerridge, Ian, 47, 49, 52, 58, 59
Kirby, Ambrose, 103–104
knowledgeable subjects, 92, 149, 157, 200, 216, 222, 228
Kolářová, Kateřina, 193
Kral, Michael J., 20
Lajeunesse, Simon L., 104–105, 113, 116
law(s), 5, 9–11, 12, 36, 52, 64, 72, 73, 74, 79–80, 82, 89, 101–102, 131, 137, 146–150, 156–158, 179–185, 188–193, 200, 203, 206, 214–215, 217–218, 225, 231, 234–235, 237, 239, 241, 255–257, 259, 271n13
LeMaster, Lore/tta, 6, 7, 13, 66, 268n14, 274n2
LGBQ people and communities, 64, 98, 111, 268n8
LGBTQ suicidality: alternative approaches, 117–123; discourses on, 35–36, 100–111, 124, 133; incomplete solutions, 113–115; oversimplistic explanations, 112–113; sanist and suicidist treatment, 115–117; statistics, 97, 98–99; stereotyping and, 110–112
LGBTQ youth suicide, 99, 114, 125
libertarianism, 77, 79, 81, 194
liberty, 9, 35, 37, 77, 79–82, 147, 176, 180, 194, 241
life-affirming support, 16–17, 131, 183, 218, 243, 248
lived experience(s), 6, 21, 26–30, 65, 68, 70, 82, 92, 97, 118, 129, 133, 145, 164, 166, 169, 216, 219, 222, 231, 240, 250
living conditions, 86, 103, 115, 156, 167, 201, 211, 218, 239, 258
long life, 23, 74–75, 110, 126, 128, 132, 180, 245
Longmore, Paul K., 143
love, 2, 108–110, 127, 132, 157, 175, 213–214, 229
loved ones: accompanied by, 90, 234, 274; suicidality of, 18–19, 213–214; suicide of, 18, 19, 64, 90, 118, 230; suicidism of, 237
Lund, Emily M., 141–142
Mad activists/scholars, 73, 75–76, 148–149, 151, 152, 188, 190
maddening, “to madden,” 24, 32, 36, 37, 138, 140, 168, 169, 170
Mad in America (webzine), 36, 140, 159–160
Mad movements, 6, 32, 137, 159, 222, 236, 261n1; disability/crip/Mad movements, 168; disability/Mad movements, 149, 158, 181, 185, 209
madness, xiii, 4, 47, 71–72, 136–140, 148–154, 159–160, 163, 167–168, 174, 180, 196, 199, 205, 217, 226, 248, 261n1
Mad people, 7, 9, 10, 12, 25, 32, 34–35, 71–72, 136–138, 140, 148–152, 159, 174, 184, 222, 261n1; disabled/Mad people, 14, 27, 32, 61, 94, 96, 136–137, 140, 142, 149, 153–164, 168–169, 180, 207; disabled/sick/ill/Mad/old people, 148, 180, 197, 200–201, 202, 212, 220, 235
Mad studies, 12, 33, 34, 68, 71, 136–140, 199, 261n1, 266n41, 270n17
Maier-Clayton, Adam, 185, 187–188, 201, 207, 230
Manning, Jason, 53
marginalization, 14, 41, 44, 87, 88, 91–93, 95, 97, 107, 132, 141, 205
Marsh, Ian, 32, 33, 38, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 70–71, 102, 217, 240, 266n47
Martin, Robyn, 57, 62, 66, 118–119, 122
Marzano, Lisa, 240
McConnell, David, 141
McDermott, Elizabeth, 106, 111, 115, 117, 123, 224
McInerney, Fran, 180–181
McKay, Shaunessy M., 30
McRuer, Robert, 10, 31, 74–75, 139, 269n6
medical assistance in dying (MAID) law, 8, 34, 143, 148, 178–179, 185, 188–190, 226, 238, 253–257, 271n9, 271n10
medical bracelet, 1–6
medical-industrial complex, 3, 196, 227, 241–242
medicalization, 47–49, 51, 83, 149, 165, 193, 194, 241–242
medical model of suicidality, 48–51
Medina, José, 34, 87, 88–91, 94–96, 101, 257–258
mental capacity, 43, 188–190, 199, 236, 265n34
mental competence, 3, 71, 72, 92, 154, 174, 177, 188, 189, 190, 199, 200, 226, 265n34, 272n23
mental disability, use of the term, 137–138
mental health, 41, 55, 57, 62, 63, 71, 81, 119, 122, 130, 141, 150, 159, 167, 170, 174, 187, 193, 208, 227, 245
mental illness(es), 9, 12, 32, 36, 46, 47, 50–52, 56, 71–72, 79, 81–82, 92, 108, 115–116, 137, 139, 150, 154, 158, 166, 168–169, 179, 185–191, 199, 201, 203, 221, 222, 226, 238, 256, 266n44, 271n10; mentally ill, 14, 37, 87, 115, 147, 149, 176–177, 184, 185–192, 198–201, 207, 255–256
mental incompetence, 71, 72, 92, 93, 154, 188–190, 199, 200, 207
microaggressions, 67
micropractices of resistance, 257
microrebellions, 257
Mills, China, 30, 57, 60, 151–153, 167, 270n18
model(s) of disability, 36, 140, 145–147, 162–170, 212, 270n24
models of suicidality, 45–61
Mollow, Anna, 168
Moore, Lisa Jean, 100
moralization, 14, 47, 48, 53, 63, 64, 80, 84
Morris, Jonathan, 62
Morse, Rebecca S., 56
Muñoz, José Esteban, 129
Murray, Stuart J., 8, 247–248, 261n4, 273n44
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL), 159
natural death, 130, 132, 203, 218
negative affect. See affects, negative negative right, 9, 79–80, 83–84, 97, 123, 182, 266n54
neoliberalism, 4, 5, 9, 11, 36–37, 57, 63, 73, 76, 79–81, 124–125, 131, 137, 177, 181, 194, 200, 210, 218, 266n50
Nitschke, Philip, 182–183
nonconsensual rescue(s), 35, 103, 120–123, 134, 150, 222, 231
nonfatal suicide attempt(s), 158, 160, 227–229
nonfuturity, 75, 124; (non)futurity, 130
nonjudgmental attitude, 85, 221, 224–225
nonstigmatizing values, 58, 63, 225
nonsuicidal, forms of suicide reframed as, 14
nonsuicidal circumstances, 230
nonsuicidal norms and perspectives, 43, 74
nonsuicidal people, 17, 23–26, 63, 70, 74, 89, 93, 94, 160, 206, 214, 219, 221, 253, 258
old age, 38, 77, 132, 180, 184, 192–193, 196–198, 217
ontological script, 148, 195, 196, 206
ontology of assisted suicide, 9, 22, 37, 38, 85, 144, 148, 176–177, 191–197, 200, 202, 203, 206, 208, 214, 217, 227, 237
oppressive system(s), 8, 30, 60, 73, 86, 88, 92, 93, 97, 104–107, 115–117, 144, 149, 153, 162, 169, 174–175, 181, 194, 216–217, 222, 236–237, 240, 257, 262n9
Paperny, Anna Mehler, 41–42, 65, 229
paternalism, 92, 156, 194, 219
pathologization, 4, 8, 12, 14, 24, 41, 48, 53, 61, 97, 115, 136, 155, 162, 273n10
pathology: collective/political, 48, 61; individual, 48–49, 62; social, 60–61
Patsavas, Alyson, 167, 198, 270n26
Patterson, Orlando, 95
Pearce, Ruth, 248–249
peer support, 22, 66, 83, 115, 118, 120, 121, 221, 224, 231, 242
Peltier, Shanna, 30
people-first language, 25
performative statement, 11, 74; effects of, 101–102
Pescosolido, Bernice, 20, 51, 53, 55, 56, 263n11
philosophical perspectives on suicide, 76–79
physician-assisted suicide (PAS), 8, 80, 146, 178, 184
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 110, 120, 140–141, 160–162, 222, 262n1
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, 248, 267n62
police: brutality and mistreatment, 4, 42, 122; calling the, 122, 150; discrimination, 121; intervention, 159; racism, 91; violence, 84, 96, 121, 159
policies, 9–10, 12–13, 15, 24, 26, 30, 46, 50–51, 54–55, 73, 76, 83–84, 90, 101, 114, 131, 145–146, 148, 184, 203, 205–206, 214, 217–218, 225, 254, 259
positive right, 9–10, 16, 35–36, 58, 79–80, 84, 86–87, 90, 97, 103, 123, 148, 162, 170, 182, 197, 212, 231
post-suicidology, 58
prevention, logic of, 4, 14–16, 24, 258
preventionist discourse(s), 11, 16, 45, 74, 100, 209, 245
preventionist perspective, 51, 133
Price, Margaret, 137, 203, 208, 257, 266n45
prison(s), 9, 32, 65, 136, 255–256
productivity, 63, 81, 123, 128, 185
psychiatry, 59, 79–81, 103, 131, 242, 254, 256
psychopolitics: of emotion, 167; of suicide, 152–153
Puar, Jasbir K., 3, 42, 124–125, 136
public health model of suicidality, 53–54, 55–57, 235–236; limitations of, 56–57; pillars of, 56
Pyne, Jake, 99
quality of life, 60, 126, 142, 144, 146, 174, 201, 224, queer art of failure, 31, 102
queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, 13, 16, 21–22, 33–34, 211–217, 225–226, 249, 253–255, 258, 262n8; descriptive and normative components, 213; suicide-affirmative approach, 217–246; thanatopolitics and, 246–249; wonder and generosity principles, 216–217
queer death studies, 33, 124, 218, 248
queering, xiv, 24, 29, 32, 35–36, 37, 103, 123, 124, 125–130, 133, 177, 178, 181, 202–203, 209, 210, 214, 216, 248, 249, 258; definition of, 100–101, 138–139, 267n6
queer necropolitics, 125
queer studies, 123; affective turn, 10, 31
queer temporality, 128
queer theory, 31, 124, 129–130, 216
queer utopianism, 126, 129–130
queer youth suicide, 124
Quill, Timothy E., 184
racism, 7, 8, 11–12, 16, 23, 29–32, 35, 43, 60, 66, 86–90, 96–97, 124–125, 133, 136, 146, 153, 160–161, 168–169, 203, 220, 222, 254, 257–258, 264n24; racist, 9, 38, 108, 111–112, 124–125, 131, 228, 239, 257–258, 267n4, 270n17, 270n18
Radford, Kelsey, 62, 66, 118–119, 122
Radi, Blas, 24
rationality, 4, 85, 101, 177, 183, 190, 197, 199, 241–242. See also irrationality rational suicide, 85, 152, 177–178, 188, 199, 201
reason(s) for suicide, xv, 98, 110, 112, 196, 244
reason(s) to die, 176, 179, 185, 194, 196, 201–202, 213, 238, 259, 271n16, 272n36
reform(s), 9, 34, 60, 87, 254–255; reformist, 10, 182, 184, 254–255, 257
relatives, 18–19, 21, 63–64, 89, 92, 94, 121, 130, 158, 219, 229–230, 243, 256; and family/families, xix–xx, 17–19, 23, 30, 63, 66, 73, 81, 121, 128, 130, 158, 185, 193, 195, 209, 222, 226, 229–230, 232, 236, 244, 251, 261n6, 272n29, 273n11
reproductive futurism, 31, 102, 127–129
retrofitting, 204–207, 210, 257
revolution, 22, 47, 86, 107, 110, 114, 116, 124, 169, 238, 240–241, 254–255, 257
Reynolds, Joel Michael, 198
Reynolds, Vikki, 60, 61, 107, 113
Riggs, Damien W., 227
rights: negative right, 9, 79–80, 83–84, 97, 123, 182; positive right, 9–10, 16, 35–36, 58, 79–80, 84, 86–87, 90, 97, 103, 123, 148, 162, 170, 182, 197, 212, 231
right-to-die movement, 173–177, 202–210; ableist, sanist, and ageist assumptions of, 197–200; arguments and divisions, 177–185; discourses as somatechnologies of life, 177–197; extension to mentally ill and Mad people, 185–191; ontology of assisted suicide, 191–197; origins and history of contemporary movement, 180–181; suicidist presumptions of, 200–202; terminology and, 178–179
risk, 8, 10, 35, 65, 111, 120–121, 133, 150, 189, 223–224, 229, 268n9; discourse of, 42, 106–108; factors, 55–57, 104, 120–121, 141
Roen, Katrina, 101, 106, 111, 115, 117, 123, 224
Rose, Nikolas, 50
safer spaces, 16, 33, 38, 65–68, 83, 119, 160, 167, 169, 172, 217, 219–220, 240, 242, 258
Salem, Tania, 193–194, 241–242
Sandahl, Carrie, 138–139
sanism: ableist/sanist/ageist framework, 16, 37, 38, 77, 148, 192, 202, 233, 237; ableist/sanist/ageist/suicidist framework, 8–9, 22, 193–196, 208–218, 227, 237, 249, 255–257
saving lives, 2, 5, 8, 12, 17, 20–23, 27, 56, 62, 87, 117–119, 121, 130, 136, 144, 147, 150, 158–160, 166, 231–232, 234–235, 243–245, 253
Scherer, Bee, 60–61, 109, 118, 123, 264n22
self-accomplished death, 45–46
self-administered death, 178, 226
self-destruction, 53, 106, 116, 156
self-determination, 53, 146–147, 194, 199, 216, 222, 237–238, 240–241, 250, 253
self-harm, 50, 76, 106, 110, 115–117, 123–124, 134, 201, 224
self-inflicted death, 212
Serano, Julia, 22
sexism, 5, 7, 11, 30, 43, 63, 87, 108
Shakespeare, Tom, 147, 154, 157, 165–166, 273n8
shame, 7, 18, 53, 104, 113, 117, 135, 151, 160–161, 219, 230
Shneidman, Edwin, 50–51
Shraya, Vivek, 232, 256, 262n1
sickness, 82, 85, 115, 143, 162, 167–168, 179–180, 182–184, 191–193, 196–198, 203, 205, 226, 228, 271n8, 272n28
“Silence = Death,” 64–65
silencing of suicidal people, 34, 41, 58, 62, 64–68, 71, 94–96, 112, 116–117, 155–157, 162, 208
sin, 47
slippery slope argument, 215, 242–244
Smith, Andrea O., 30
social determinants of health, 53, 54, 104, 221, 236
social justice model of suicidality, 57–61
social learning theory, 53
social model of suicidality, 44, 51–55
social services, 121–122, 186, 206, 208, 217, 238, 242
socio-subjective model of disability, 36, 140, 165–170, 212
somatechnologies of life, 12, 35, 37, 76, 101–102; disabled/Mad suicidality discourses and, 140–158; LGBTQ suicidality discourses and, 103–117; right-to-die discourses and, 177–197
special populations, 14, 37, 202–207, 214; special groups, 180, 209
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 68, 87–88, 91, 252, 265n35
Stefan, Susan, 5, 56, 66, 82–84, 190–191, 192, 230, 234, 252
stereotyping: ableist, 145, 198; ageist, 197; of disabled/Mad people, 154; of LGBTQ suicidal people, 111–112, 116; of suicidal people, 156, 174, 199
stigma, 20–21, 41, 87, 107, 113, 124, 169, 178, 216, 230, 268n14
stigmatization, xiii, 4, 8, 14, 18, 20, 41, 61, 63, 65, 84, 95, 106, 121–122, 141, 161–162, 164, 219, 240
Stohlmann-Rainey, Jess, 159–160
structural suicidism, 7, 21, 43, 68, 93, 183, 206, 213, 216, 220
suffering: emotional, 37, 82, 138, 165, 174, 176, 185, 186, 231, 234; experience of, 38, 111, 135, 146–148, 156, 165–170, 188, 208, 219–220, 226, 229, 259; intolerable, 193, 229; irremediable, 207; mental, 9, 37, 186–187, 191, 200, 234, 256; notion of, 157, 163–164, 187, 196–199; psychological, 50, 165, 173–174, 179, 186, 232, 234; social, 73, 138, 144, 148, 152, 183, 198–199, 219, 239, 240–241; subjective, 36, 219; unbearable, 173, 272n22
suicidal epistemological standpoint, 17, 27, 78, 216, 253
suicidal futurities, 8, 15–16, 28, 211, 247, 249
suicidality, models of, 45–62
suicidality essentialism, 169
suicidal killjoy, 128–129
suicide-affirmative approach, 217–220; advantages of, 228–232; potential objections to, 232–246; principles of, 220–227
suicide-affirmative health care, 31, 37, 93, 117–118, 177, 217–218, 249–250, 255–256
suicide notes, 69–71, 94, 98, 110, 134, 257–258
suicidism: coinage of the neologism, xiv, 5–6, 43; definition of, 4, 43; structural, 7, 21, 43, 68, 93, 183, 206, 213, 216, 220
suicidist curative logic, 16, 24
suicidist oppression, 19, 34–35, 43, 64, 68, 74, 85, 90–93, 97, 112, 128, 131–133, 169, 212, 220, 257
suicidist preventionist script, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 17, 34, 64–68, 71, 93, 96, 117, 132–134, 138, 169, 176, 221
suicidist regimes, 10, 11, 23, 34, 36, 74, 106, 115, 153, 170, 221, 235
suicidist script, 95
suicidist system, 6, 23, 74, 92, 97, 102–103, 110, 117, 208, 216, 228–229, 234, 244
suicidist violence, 5–6, 8, 21–23, 28–29, 43, 61, 68, 97, 117, 157, 163, 166, 170, 206, 208, 216, 246, 252
Sumner, Leonard Wayne, 179, 184, 185
surveillance, 8, 12, 41, 42, 56–57, 106, 132, 175, 193, 233, 242, 248–249
survivors: good and bad survivorhood, 161–162; relatives and friends of suicidal people as, 64, 229; of suicide attempts, 47; those who reject suicide as, 116
Sussman, Bernard, 184
Szasz, Thomas, 2, 47, 65, 79–84, 248
Taylor, Chloë, 37, 47, 52, 60, 77–78, 200
terminal illness, 128, 146, 151–152, 154, 180, 188, 193, 271n8
testimonial: preemptive testimonial injustice, 93–95; testimonial death, 95–96; testimonial injustice, 91–92, 219; testimonial smothering, 23, 94–95, 112, 156, 157
thanatopolitics, 8, 37–38, 208, 210, 211–212, 216, 246–249, 257
Thienpont, Lieve, 185–186, 207, 231
Thom, Kai Cheng, 107–110, 116, 117, 127, 236, 239, 240, 245, 258–259
Tierney, Thomas F., 48, 193, 241–242
toxic positivity, 126
trans activists/scholars, 13, 19, 35–36, 104, 115, 132–134, 135, 137, 139, 144–145, 153, 162–163, 169–170, 194
trans-affirmative approach, 31, 217–219, 221, 227
trans-affirmative health care, 113, 122–123, 215, 217–218, 248–249
trans communities, 13, 34, 98, 100, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113–115, 120–121, 195, 218, 241–242, 267n1
transing, xiv, 24, 29, 31–32, 35–37, 100–101, 103, 130, 133–134, 177, 203, 209–210, 214–216, 248–249, 258, 267n6; definition of, 100–101
transition, sex/gender, 18–19, 113, 122, 174, 193–194, 195–196, 215, 242, 247
Trans Lifeline, 62, 118, 120–122, 123, 134, 150, 220, 231, 268n16
trans movement(s), 6, 27, 103, 137, 185, 224, 233, 261n3
trans people: accountability toward, 110–111; agency of, 215; cis/trans interactions, 221; colonialism and, 111; depathologization of suicidality, 117; depathologization of trans identities, 162; gatekeepers and gatekeeping, 122, 193–194, 227; intersectionality and trans suicidality, 111, 113, 118, 133–134; sex/gender transition, 18–19, 113, 122, 174, 193–194, 195–196, 203, 215, 219, 227, 242, 247; trans youth suicide, 98–99, 101
Trans pulse Canada Team, 99, 122
trans studies, 33–34, 127, 163, 267n5
trans theory, xiv, 31, 102, 134
trauma(s), 63, 110, 158, 162, 166, 228, 230–231, 238, 270n22; traumatic, 19, 42, 90, 158, 173, 229–230, 244
undesirable subjects, 3, 11, 107, 133, 248
unproductive subjects, 4, 11, 73, 125
Verhelst, Nathan, 173–175, 192
violence turned against the self, 13, 53, 106–107, 145, 258
voice(s): as microresistance, 251–260; suicidal people’s (absent) voices, 68–71; suicidist preventionist script and, 64–68
vulnerable people, 10, 43, 72–73, 95, 146–147, 154
Webb, David, 65–66, 68–69, 136
Werth, James L. Jr., 85–86
White, Jennifer, 24, 32, 33, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 70, 265n38
willful hermeneutical ignorance, 93, 95
will to live, 11, 23, 35, 74, 105, 249
Winter, Rachel, 240
Wipond, Rob, 159
Wishart, Emery, 62, 66, 118–119, 122
World Health Organization (WHO), 55–56, 65, 263n13
Wray, Matt, 20, 51, 53, 55, 56, 263n11
youth suicide, 99; homosexual and bisexual male youth suicide, 104–105; LGBTQ youth suicide, 99, 114, 125; queer youth suicide, 101, 124; trans youth suicide, 101