The Suicide Diaries
In the musical play that is life, to live is to hold the strings of life's instrument taut. Without tension, there is no music, and too much tension will destroy the instrument. In a similar fashion, life must be lived under tension, but for some that tension is too great and the instrument and the life break, falling to suicide.
In this book, the reader and the characters walk side by side. The beauty of life is celebrated and the beauty that is death is examined. This book walks the reader through the performances of several people, and in addition to the beauty, watches as lives break under the load that has become too heavy to bear. The author chronicles people's lives in Suicide Diaries, following them, watching them, understanding them and watch as the life cracks, bleeds and falls.
The Suicide Diaries investigates these handful of people and their expression of humanity; examining the construction and culmination of the mindset that has brought about the choice to react with suicide as the final act in the experience of life. O�Neil invites readers to foray possibly the most difficult choice a person has to make in this dark collection.