Life After Death: Surviving Suicide

An intertwined tale of a boy’s world shattered by suicide and a man’s story rewritten by neuroscience.

When Richard Brockman found his mother’s body, the simple narrative of his childhood ended. Life After Death tells the story of a boy who died and of a man who survived when the boy and the man are one and the same. It tells a very personal—yet tragically common—story of irredeemable loss. It tells the story of story itself. How story forms. How it grows. How it changes. How it can be brok...