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Um livro mesmo muito curto, mais parece um panfleto com estatísticas, embora as ideias derivadas das mesmas façam todo o sentido.

Pensei que iria encontrar mais exemplos, embora tenham sido descritos casos de suicídio em várias classes sociais.

Recomendo a sua leitura, embora talvez acompanhada de alguma pesquisa do contexto histórico.

"(...)uma crítica social inspirada na compreensão que o privado é político. (...)

"(...)O suicídio é significativo, tanto para Marx como para Peuchet, sobretudo como um sintoma de uma sociedade doente, que necessita de uma transformação radical(...)"

"()Quem são as vítimas não-proletárias levadas ao (...) suicídio pela sociedade burguesa? (...) as mulheres."

"must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures
of individual morality? () patients have described the experience of
receiving their drugs as humiliating—() being told that this only happened because they wereunclean or poor or otherwise lesser— () and yet we always seem to blame the patient for noncompliance, rather than blaming the structures of the social order that make compliance more difficult."

"nd so just as Britain was ground zero for the Industrial Revolution, it was ground zero for the explosion of tuberculosis. Similar outbreaks have occurred in the twentieth century in India and Nigeria as they industrialized. “TB’s parallel journey with capital,” as the investigative journalist Vidya Krishnan put it, appears in outbreak after outbreak."

We would like to imagine (...) that human
history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors
have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning (...). We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection. But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do, but also a record of what is done to us."

"I was a Native scholarship student who spent all her free time working or doing homework. They were all white students born into privilege. (...) any time I spoke to them, we were both uncomfortable, trying to find things we had in common(...). They always wanted to talk about pop culture or classic white, American writers."

“Sometimes it’s convenient being Native—we’ve got a pretty high tolerance for weirdness.“

"That tracks, doesn’t it? Do any of us exist, after all, unless or until we’re called to do so? Are we really alive if someone isn’t dreaming us into existence?"

But their fate was soon visible in the spectral patterns in the rock around Tenkiller, around the river, and around the entire land, their fate so obvious in the ridges of rock and limestone, for each one of them looked horrified at that moment they heard the buzzard story, and we stood and approached them along with our missing women, who showed them their rage, because one should never anger a Native woman or else

"Let the past go. Somebody once told me that the past is never over. At the time, I thought that was ridiculous, the sort of thing a person says to sound smart. But now I understood—no matter how hard we try to create our own reality, we’re bound by the web of our ancestors, our family, ourselves. The decisions we make and the choices of others."

D’un geste brusque, il saisit l’homme par les parements de sa veste et le regarda, profondément, violemment, mieux encore qu’il ne l’avait regardé aux assises, et en vérité ce ne fut plus l’homme qu’il vit. C’était l’homme, mais c’était en même temps l’autre, le vrai.

"Il parut d’abord embarrassé, et marcha comme un homme qui n’a pas d’idées bien précises sur l’emploi de son temps."

"For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a
thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused."

‘The young people think the old people
are fools; but the old people know the young people are
fools!’

“What you say is terrible!”
“No—it’s only new to you. New truths have to be faced.
One’s ideas adjusted. But sometimes—it makes life difficult.”

“We think with horror now of the days when we burnt
witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to
think that we ever hanged criminals.”

“It is a mystery to me,” I said, “how anyone ever gets any
nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals
standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing
anything.”

“It is a mystery to me,” I said, “how anyone ever gets any
nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals
standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing
anything.”

A escrita está toda muito clara e fluida, embora se mantenha a um nível mais superficial, quase com o intuito de ser uma introdução ou um guia do dia-a-dia sobre como aproveitar o silêncio.

Estou a gostar muito embora sinta mesmo muita falta da mênção de fontes que apoiem as afirmações da autora que não são tiradas da sua própria vida pessoal... Ou é isto é que é auto-ajuda??

"– Pourquoi, dit-il encore, aurais-je une apparence définie ? Pourquoi ne pas éviter ce danger d’une personnalité toujours identique ? Mes actes me désignent suffisamment.
Et il précise, avec une pointe d’orgueil :
– Tant mieux si l’on ne peut jamais dire en toute certitude : Voici Arsène Lupin. L’essentiel est qu’on dise sans crainte d’erreur : Arsène Lupin a fait cela."