Clancy Martin (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2003) is professor of philosophy at UMKC. He works on nineteenth century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, applied ethics, and Buddhism. He has published more than 10 books on a variety of subjects, mostly philosophical, including two novels, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ethics, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Harper’s (where he is a contributing editor), Vice (where he is a contributing editor) and dozens of other magazines, journals and newspapers. His work has been optioned for movies and television and has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he has won a Guggenheim Fellowship among other fellowships and awards. Martin teaches 19th Century Philosophy, Existentialism, Bioethics, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Philosophy of Literature, and other courses for the philosophy department. He has four children, is married to the writer Amie Barrodale and lives in midtown Kansas City near the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

**Professor Rory O’Connor** is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and **President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. ** Rory leads the **Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory** at the University of Glasgow, one of the leading suicide and self-harm research groups internationally and can be found on twitter (**@suicideresearch**). He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm, specifically concerning the psychological processes which precipitate suicidal behaviour and self-harm. He is author of "Understanding Suicidal Behaviour" (with Noel Sheehy), co-editor of The Routledge Major Works Series on Suicide (with Keith Hawton) and co-editor of the International Handbook of Suicide Prevention (2nd edition with Jane Pirkis). He is on the editorial board of IASP’s journal Crisis and acts as an advisor to a wide range of international organisations including national governments on the areas of suicide and self-harm. His book "**_When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do To Prevent It_**” was published in May 2021.