“Better” Asks Us to Reframe Conversations About Suicide

By Marisa Russello | May 2, 2025
Photo of Arianna Rebolini with her brown hair down and wearing a dark blue button-up shirt and jeans. The photo is beside a photo of her book, Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die, that has an Edvard Munch painting on the cover, though I don't know which. These images are surrounded by yellow borders. I got the image from the Chicago Review of Books.

What drives someone to die by suicide is an enigma that will forever exist on the edge of our understanding. Although we can never truly know a person’s thoughts in their final moments of life, Arianna Rebolini gives us an intimate look inside the mind of someone who’s been there in her debut memoir, Better: A…

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