Conclusion

This concluding chapter shows that The Impossible Subject of Suicide has not intended to solve the “problem” of suicide and the suicidal subject once and for all, nor to give definitive answers. Instead, the book's intention has been to stage an intervention in the de-agentification of suicidal subjects, and in the rigid ways in which suicide is conceptualised. When expressing a desire to die or a desire not to live, when having ended one's life, and when supporting suicide as a possibility, one is rendered culturally intelligible and articulable as a type of subject whose agency is not recognised. As such, the suicidal subject as suicidal subject is an impossibility. Referring to queer readings of suicide, this chapter argues that the space opened up by a somatechnics orientation enables us to envision different models of meaning-making and ways of being with suicide beyond the de-agentifying dominant suicide prevention framework.