Cioran claimed to have been able to avoid killing himself by fully embracing the idea of suicide.

Cioran was a pessimist and a nihilist (and a blowhard) and interested in the idea of suicide, but never suicidal in the first place.

	▲	netfortius a day ago \| parent [-]
		He denied being a nihilist, himself, multiple times, as well as those having studied his work. He was an extreme sceptic.