"The first human corpse I saw had housed my grandmother’s soul. I expected a serene mien. I expected to find her sleep…"

"Pills are the great infantilizers of our time. Adulthood can be wearying, and so some grow nostalgic about childhood …"

"Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relev…"

"In wanting to kill himself, a man wants only to kill his consciousness of pain. I think therefore I am; therefore if …"

"It takes real sangfroid to stare death out. Planning your own murder is a delicate undertaking, requiring as much for…"

"Recollections fell from me in flakes, in scales. All that remained of me was all that remains of anyone: a kind of ir…"

"Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt."

"Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn."

"In the second or so it had taken that bullet to leave its muzzle and penetrate my father's heart, between the pressur…"

"Grief is a sphere in that it can be turned a quarter turn or turned a millionth, it can be spun on any axis and by an…"