A re-posting of this December 29, 2013 conversation between Brad Listi and Jennifer Michael Hecht, author STAY: A HISTORY OF SUICIDE AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT. Hecht is a poet, historian, and commentator. Her other books include the bestseller "Doubt: A History," "The Happiness Myth," and "The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology."
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