Alpha1
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BS... No bravery involved in this shamefull act. It's not bravery but an impulsive moment clouding someone's judgement abilities.
If he or she can take a pause for few seconds/ minutes the gtearest sin can be avoided.
“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
@Skies @hinduguy
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