Suicide and me

[Dazedandconfused32]

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

David Foster Wallace

 

[fightingsioux]

David Foster Wallace

Good quote. By the way, David Foster Wallace wrote a fabulous novel called Infinite Jest. He killed himself about 10 years ago.

 

[Dazedandconfused32]

Good quote. By the way, David Foster Wallace wrote a fabulous novel called Infinite Jest. He killed himself about 10 years ago.

Oh thanks for the heads up! I'll check it out and see if I can bring myself to read for once.

 

[fightingsioux]

Oh thanks for the heads up! I'll check it out and see if I can bring myself to read for once.

Reading will not hurt you, as a matter of fact it's the cheapest and best non-prescription drug out there!

 

[Dazedandconfused32]

Reading will not hurt you, as a matter of fact it's the cheapest and best non-prescription drug out there!

Yeah yeah... tell my brain that . I can't even get through long post on here anymore. My mind is spent and I'm exhausted. Gotta love this life! Not...

 

[fightingsioux]

Yeah yeah... tell my brain that . I can't even get through long post on here anymore. My mind is spent and I'm exhausted. Gotta love this life! Not...

Just teasing you a bit. Hang in there.