Designing for a pleasurable and creative death

Vladimir Nabokov's last book "The Original of Laura" introduces the idea of a design for the "craziest death in the world". The main character, Philip Wild, a lecturer in experimental psychology at the University of Ganglia experiments with death by shutting off his body from his toes upward and restoring it again with the use of elaborate tools. The whole book is a "neurologist testament", of a "luxurious suicide", a "poisonous opus" describing a process of dissolution and self obliteration in which the main character tries to "mimic an imperial neurotransmitter on awesome messenger carrying my order of self destruction to my brain". I would like to offer a design reading of this book and look closer at other similar acts of destruction that aim to develop such elements of creativity. How can suicides be made into pleasure? What are the design principles for pleasurable and creative death? When does death become a trophy?