num_pages: 1905
description: Mitchell Heisman the man who shot himself September 18 2010 in Harvard Yard killed himself as Experimental Elimination of Self-Preservation according to an extensive suicide note he has published online. The note found at the domain http://www.suicidenote.info/  is over 1905 pages long and divided into complicated subsections. In its totality the document sketches Heismans dense heavily-cited social political and ethical philosophy and promotes his book heretofore unpublished. Heisman worked in several bookstores throughout the area and consulted with Harvard professors in the process of writing the document.Most arresting of all: the note  tome really  is probing deeply researched and often humorous. Heisman personality and erudition shine through every page as he traces the philosophical steps that have led him to suicide: not really desperation or depression but rather intellectual curiosity and a desire to test the limits of the unknown. After a quick read comparisons to Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus abound. All the more sad that such a deeply intelligent young man would choose to cut his scholarly output off at one interesting book.
language: English
title: Suicide Note
publisher: Mitchell Heisman, for copying and distribution under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No