Discussion The Complete Manual of Suicide (pub. 1993)

[Alcoholic Teletubby]

CAUTION: My intention in sharing this information is not to glorify or persuade anyone to consider CTB. I support the right to access information related to the choice of ending one's life, as an individual sees fit. This thread aims to facilitate a frank discussion about the book and its content.

This is a thread dedicated to discussing, analyzing, and criticizing the content of the book, The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, かんぜんじさつマニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru), created and published by the Japanese author Wataru Tsurumi in 1993.

I've been periodically searching for a complete English translation for years. Now, I believe that I may (hint: "may") have finally come across a well-enough amateur translation of it. Two, to be exact:

1. https://archive.org/details/the-complete-suicide-manual-english/page/n29/mode/2up​
2. https://archive.org/details/the-com...-google-and-myself-wataru../page/n33/mode/2up​

If, for any reason, these links and their content are no longer available, I have downloaded copies of each and will share them as a ZIP file.

Here are some tunes I also stumbled across while browsing through the archive:

Music Source Link​

 

[eesabtbad]

There's also one on github, Chinese and English language version (https://github.com/CotardSyndrome/CompleteSuicideManual-En/tree/master) and I've also seen one in Spanish.

 

[Alcoholic Teletubby]

Feel free to bring up books, journals, articles, or other academic materials during the discussion. If there are any native Japanese users or those who are well-versed in the Japanese language, I would love to hear your input on your perception of the book and its contents, its impact on Japanese culture, and any translation input you may want to share.

Link to an untranslated version of the book:

If you see any information that may need to be corrected, let me know.

There's also one on github, Chinese and English language version (https://github.com/CotardSyndrome/CompleteSuicideManual-En/tree/master) and I've also seen one in Spanish.

Thank you for the link, esabtbad! I would suggest to others that if you want to explore this through GitHub, sign in or create an account using a proxy email. (The site tried to have me confirm my sign-in session through my account that was created through my college email. 0_o )