Dustin

“Suicide is not selfish
Characterising suicide as selfish simply adds to the stigma around it. And when stigma increases, help-seeking declines, ignorance flourishes and deaths soar.”
― Rory O’ Connor, When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It

“She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“When you get to a place where dying seems like the easy way out, that changes you.”
― Erin Stewart

“At first, suicide was just a word, a vague idea separate from reality. It pointed at a way that other people chose to die, people I didn't even know. But once the word became my own, it took on the strangest shape. I could feel it growing deep inside of me. Suicide wasn't something that happened to strangers. I could make it happen, if I wanted to.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven