Nordlit

This autumn edition of Nordlit focuses on a very uncomfortable theme and contains 12 readings of "texts" in which suicide and suicidal survival are front and centre. Why do some people choose to commit suicide, and why do some suicidal candidates choose not to? How do authors write about suicide, and how can readers approach this topic? Can suicide reveal something genuine about our perspectives on life and death and the grief we experience when loved ones decide to end their own lives? These articles examine how literature and pop cultural phenomena like music, television shows and comics present suicide and suicidal survival.

The editors would like to thank all the authors who write about this complex theme, our contributors, and Rolf Wynn, who wrote this edition’s postscript. And also our peer reviewers. Finally, we would like to dedicate this edition of Nordlit to those who passed away, to all those who are suffering from suicidal thoughts, and to those who have lost loved ones to suicide: a family member, a relative, a partner, a dear friend, a colleague, or an acquaintance. There are many of us.