Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.

Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, from the 15th to 20th centuries. The bibliography lists about 4000 works in thematic chapters, to each of which Rost wrote an introduction. It includes 54 illustrations, which may represent the first published collection of historical images on suicide.