Death Wish is a book-length collection of anonymous confessions exploring one of humanity’s least admitted impulses: the desire for another person’s death.

Curated by Angus Bell Young, the project gathers short-form submissions from around the world, each one asking its contributor to articulate, with absolute anonymity, who they wish dead and why.

The collection reads as a kind of collective subconscious: fragmented, intimate, ugly, banal, devastating. Lovers. Parents. Friends. Bosses. Strangers. The reasons range from profound betrayal to minor humiliation, from violence endured to irritation. There is no hierarchy of grievance, no attempt to justify, condemn, diagnose, or redeem. Each confession is held as evidence of a thought most people are taught to bury before it can form a language.

Death Wish is not a book about killing. It is a book about the violence of thought, the pressure of silence, and the moral theatre of civility. It asks what happens when the most unacceptable human feeling is stripped of consequence and allowed to speak plainly. In doing so, the project examines power, shame, revenge, repression, and the strange intimacy of wishing someone gone.

At its core, Death Wish is an archive of the unspoken: a study of the thoughts we disown, the people we cannot forgive, and the dark private rooms where fantasy, pain, and morality meet.