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Reading this has been such a hit or miss journey, the evolutionary biology arguments are seriously weak, some of the social arguments are deterministic and, to be fair, deeply flawed if you're familiarized with anthropology. Still, some parts present solid arguments and the data researched can be insightful. I mostly agree with the author's conclusions, just not always with her rationale.

To see life as a gift is to accept that one is born owing a debt.

Trying not to let the gender essentialism and the use of "evolutionary psychology" – one of the lamest spawns of Evolution theory along with social darwinism, to get in the way of the actual interesting ideas of this book, having a hard time, but I persist.

«Art requires obstruction; pure, limitless freedom is the death of art. An aesthetic is necessary for the creation and experience of art. This aesthetic need not be explicit or articulable, and frequently includes inarticulable elements. But even purely legible rule sets can create much of the aesthetic context that art needs in order to be meaningful»

This book is fascinating...

I used to think that this cover was ugly, and I still do, but now that I've learned better, I think it's charming that a book about the ethics of suicide, among other things, has a cover painted by Jack Kevorkian