The Suicide Shop

""Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success.""

- The Suicide Shop motto

The Suicide Shop (Le Magasin Des Suicides in its original French) is a Black Comedy by the French author and film-maker Jean Teule about the Tuvauches, the family that runs the afore-mentioned shop in the distant future after the "Big One" where life has become meaningless for most, leading to them seeking out the Suicide Shop, where they have a method to kill yourself for any budget. When their youngest son, Alan is born, they discover that he is not like the others.

This book includes examples of:
""Watch carefully as I'll only be showing you once.""
 * Black Comedy
 * Crapsack World
 * Cheerful Child: Alan
 * Hollywood Pudgy: Marilyn
 * Meaningful Name: all three of the Tuvauche children are named after suicides
 * Alan for Alan Turing
 * Marilyn for Marilyn Monroe
 * Vincent for Vincent van Gogh
 * Suicide as Comedy: Alan's sergeant during his stint in the Monaco suicide commando team