“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
― Ender's Shadow
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
― Ender's Shadow
“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy ”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.”
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“Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete ”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
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