Suicide Note
| Author | Mitchell Heisman |
|---|---|
| Published | 2010 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A 1,905-page philosophical treatise on nihilism, religion and technology, released by its author shortly before he took his own life in 2010.
Mitchell Heisman, a 35-year-old independent writer, died by suicide at Harvard in September 2010 and left this manuscript online, released under a Creative Commons non-commercial, no-derivatives licence. It opens with an epigraph from Plato’s Phaedo and calls itself “an experiment in nihilism”.
The overview lists an opening section on freedom of speech and parts arguing, among other things, that “God is Technology”: that monotheism prepared the way for a technological singularity. Much of the book is a long sociobiological reading of history, religion, Jewish history and liberal democracy.
What it is: a self-published philosophical manuscript, not peer-reviewed, and the last writing of a man who killed himself. Its subject and its reading of history are sensitive.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
1905 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.