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Much of the novel amounts to a sort of dossier on the phenomenon of self-slaughter.

He’s corralled by a desperate Masha to talk Semyon out of doing the deed and dutifully fulminates about the blasphemous act of self-slaughter.

Prosecutors have openly wondered if Jordan’s attempt at self-slaughter was less earnest than the procedure that took her son.

Self-slaughter is known to lurk in the genes; those with parents who killed themselves are more likely to attempt the same act.

What can we learn from the way playwrights have dealt with the complex subject of self-slaughter, a topic Hamlet contemplates at length in what is the most famous speech in all of drama, his "To be or not to be" soliloquy?