>>24668204 (OP)
I am in the same position as you. The pessimists (especially Cioran) have fucked me up a little. But after spending some time with Cioran, a little 'enjoyness' is born. His idea of suicide as a concept to cope with existence is pretty helpful. I recommend his interview with Jason Weiss. Its like 40 pages and was pretty nice for me. If you haven't read him, be careful, because he can fuck you up if you misunderstand him first. But he is pretty calming. But very nihilistic.
Waiting for Godot and Candide are pretty nice books, but I wouldn't know how they would be helpful to you. Don't want to spoil anything, but they are basically just skepticism and nihilism, in some sense.
>>24668826
That statistic is probably pretty worthless. I am not quite sure, where the data comes from. But I think Cambridge used it, and they said the data is based in large measure on reports of suicide mortality from 130/193 countries.
That would be pretty useless, because validity of this data would be unclear; the legal criteria for the proof of suicide vary between countries; some countries have poor death registration facilities; cultural and religious factors and stigma attached to suicide may lead to under-reporting of suicides, particularly in Islamic countries, where they may be reported as accidental deaths; (This is from another similar study that talked about the problem with self reported suicides). So if this data is gathered otherwise, please let me know.
Apart from that, why is the data from different years? There is a decade between these numbers. How can one compare that?
Why wouldn't you look at a study that looks at happiness or some shit. I attached some random one. Don't know how the data is gathered or anything, but you probably wouldn't have a problem with that. Islam doesn't perform very well there.
