CONTENTS
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Introduction: Suicidal Manifesto
Journey into a Suicidal Mind: From the Personal to the Theoretical
Suicidism, Compulsory Aliveness, and the Injunction to Live and to Futurity
(Un)doing Suicide: (Re)signifying Terms
Autothanatotheory: A Methodological and Conceptual Toolbox
Dissecting (Assisted) Suicide: The Structure of the Book
CHAPTER 1. Suicidism: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing Suicide
1.1. The Main Models of Suicidality
1.2. The Ghosts in Suicidality Models
1.3. Alternative Conceptualizations of Suicidality
1.4. Suicidism as Epistemic Violence
CHAPTER 2. Queering and Transing Suicide: Rethinking LGBTQ Suicidality
2.1. Discourses on LGBTQ Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life
2.2. Alternative Approaches to Trans Suicidality: Trans Lifeline and DISCHARGED
2.3. A Failure to Really Fail: Queer Theory, Suicidality, and (Non)Futurity
CHAPTER 3. Cripping and Maddening Suicide: Rethinking Disabled/Mad Suicidality
3.1. Discourses on Disabled/Mad Suicidality as Somatechnologies of Life
3.2. Alternative Approaches to Disabled/Mad Suicidality
3.3. Suicidality as Disability: Rethinking Suicidality through Cripistemology
PART II: RETHINKING ASSISTED SUICIDE
4.1. Right-to-Die Discourses as Somatechnologies of Life
4.2. Ableist, Sanist, and Ageist Assumptions in Right-to-Die Discourses
4.3. Suicidist Presumptions in Right-to-Die Discourses
4.4. Cripping Right-to-Die Discourses: Rethinking Access to Assisted Suicide
CHAPTER 5. Queering, Transing, Cripping, and Maddening Assisted Suicide
5.1. Queercrip Model of (Assisted) Suicide
5.2. Suicide-Affirmative Approach
5.3. Potential Objections to a Suicide-Affirmative Approach
5.4. Thanatopolitics of Assisted Suicide as an Ethics of Living
Conclusion: Can the Suicidal Subject Speak? Suicidal People’s Voices as Microresistance