Facing Down The Furies - Edith Hall

An Award-winning Classicist Turns To Greek Tragedies For The Wisdom To Understand The Damage Caused By Suicide And Help Those Who Are Contemplating Suicide Themselves Remarkable, Brave And Compassionate.rowan Williams, Statesman In Sophocles Tragedy Oedipus The Tyrant, A Messenger Arrives To Report That Jocasta, Queen Of Thebes, Has Killed Herself. To Prepare Listeners For This Terrible News, He Announces, The Tragedies That Hurt The Most Are Those That Sufferers Have Chosen For Themselves. Edith Hall, Whose Own Life And Psyche Have Been Shaped By Such Lossher Mothers Grandfather, Mother, And First Cousin All Took Their Own Livestraces The Philosophical Arguments On Suicide, From Plato And Aristotle To David Hume And Albert Camus.