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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Cover Description for Accessibility
  7. Foreword by Robert McRuer
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Suicidal Manifesto
    1. Journey into a Suicidal Mind: From the Personal to the Theoretical
    2. Suicidism, Compulsory Aliveness, and the Injunction to Live and to Futurity
    3. (Un)doing Suicide: (Re)signifying Terms
    4. Autothanatotheory: A Methodological and Conceptual Toolbox
    5. Dissecting (Assisted) Suicide: The Structure of the Book
  10. Part I: Rethinking Suicide
    1. Chapter 1. Suicidism: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing Suicide
      1. 1.1. The Main Models of Suicidality
      2. 1.2. The Ghosts in Suicidality Models
      3. 1.3. Alternative Conceptualizations of Suicidality
      4. 1.4. Suicidism as Epistemic Violence
      5. 1.5. Final Words
    2. Chapter 2. Queering and Transing Suicide: Rethinking LGBTQ Suicidality
      1. 2.1. Discourses on LGBTQ Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life
      2. 2.2. Alternative Approaches to Trans Suicidality: Trans Lifeline and DISCHARGED
      3. 2.3. A Failure to Really Fail: Queer Theory, Suicidality, and (Non)Futurity
      4. 2.4. Final Words
    3. Chapter 3. Cripping and Maddening Suicide: Rethinking Disabled/Mad Suicidality
      1. 3.1. Discourses on Disabled/Mad Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life
      2. 3.2. Alternative Approaches to Disabled/Mad Suicidality
      3. 3.3. Suicidality as Disability: Rethinking Suicidality through Cripistemology
      4. 3.4. Final Words
  11. Part II: Rethinking Assisted Suicide
    1. Chapter 4. The Right-to-Die Movement and Its Ableist/Sanist/Ageist/Suicidist Ontology of Assisted Suicide
      1. 4.1. Right-to-Die Discourses as Somatechnologies of Life
      2. 4.2. Ableist, Sanist, and Ageist Assumptions in Right-to-Die Discourses
      3. 4.3. Suicidist Presumptions in Right-to-Die Discourses
      4. 4.4. Cripping Right-to-Die Discourses: Rethinking Access to Assisted Suicide
      5. 4.5. Final Words
    2. Chapter 5. Queering, Transing, Cripping, and Maddening Assisted Suicide
      1. 5.1. Queercrip Model of (Assisted) Suicide
      2. 5.2. Suicide-Affirmative Approach
      3. 5.3. Potential Objections to a Suicide-Affirmative Approach
      4. 5.4. Thanatopolitics of Assisted Suicide as an Ethics of Living
      5. 5.5. Final Words
  12. Conclusion: Can the Suicidal Subject Speak? Suicidal People’s Voices as Microresistance
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author

ALEXANDRE BARIL is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa. He is the recipient of the 2021 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion President’s Award at the University of Ottawa and the 2020 Francophone Canadian Disability Studies Association Tanis Doe Award for his contributions to research and activism on disability.

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