"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain...all the way to its stoic conclusion." --Primo Levi

"The testimony of a profoundly serious man.... In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." --Irving Howe, New Republic

"This remarkable memoir...is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience. With the ear of a poet and the eye of a novelist, Amery vividly communicates the wonder of a philosopher--a wonder here aroused by the 'dark riddle' of the Nazi regime and its systematic sadism." --Jim Miller, Newsweek

"Whoever has succumbed...

..". a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... " Kirkus Reviews

Jean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind s Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.