This Glorious Disorder

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For crying out loud, suicide is a human being who just decided to exit the world. As I was saying, getting out of life is something many of us have thought about at some time or another. We may not have thought about doing it ourselves, but we have at least on some occasion or other, found appealing the idea of it somehow just happening. As painlessly as possible, thank you very much. Life is hard enough without going out of it in more pain than absolutely necessary. Come on, be honest. So why on earth do we keep reacting to news of suicides like someone took our lives when they take theirs?

But that sounds too cheesily Freudian. I think we feel like the one person who could answer our question is the same one who raised the question precisely by making themselves permanently unable to answer it!

Next time you hear that someone died by or attempted suicide, try to think of them the way you do when you hear someone has cancer. You simply think or at least I hope you think:. What if I—gulp—get cancer too? Sign in Get started. Classical, Early, and Medieval Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval World History: Civil War American History: Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.

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