The upper level gallery of the Goethe-Institut offers an intimate venue for this private, invite-only party. The Fringe Festival’s 7 Lessons On Suicide gathers five friends and acquaintances (and one party crasher) to end it all, because why die alone when you can, you know, die alone in a house full of people?

Sisters Euney and Bea host the shindig, after Euney begins to lose her memory like her mother before her. She knows that when it goes, both her and Bea, whom she cares for, will end up separated in care facilities. Instead, they plan to go out their own way: (mostly) lucid and together. The rest of the characters briefly explain their difficulties with life, colored with dark humor and usually spurred by potentially-suicidal Hannah’s ex-boyfriend, who shows up livid and desperate to stop her. The party-goers take their turns offering “lessons” in monologues to the audience.

Lessons doesn’t make the mistake of trying to get too deep about the subject matter, keeping it light — it’s a party after all! — with their clearly relieved it’s-about-to-be-over attitudes and a few well-played puns. The catch here is that these seven lessons are as much about life as they are about death; how the characters heed each one, and where fate leads them is for each of them to tell and, indeed, to conclude when they choose (the story, at least). Lessons occasionally hits some off-key notes with a few painfully over-acting and over-excited partiers, but Aileen Brenner as the “normal” Hannah and Molly Weeks Crumbley as Euney (“I feel like I’ve been a terrible host!”), in particular, bring this tale of death and life to a fine conclusion.

7 Lessons On Suicide has four more performances, July 20 at 8:30 p.m., July 21 at 10 p.m., July 24 at 10 p.m and July 25 at 3:30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut.