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Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
Pills are the great infantilizers of our time. Adulthood can be wearying, and so some grow nostalgic about childhood dependencies.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
It takes real sangfroid to stare death out. Planning your own murder is a delicate undertaking, requiring as much foresight and paperwork as that invested by some girls into their first weddings.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
In wanting to kill himself, a man wants only to kill his consciousness of pain. I think therefore I am; therefore if I am not, I cannot think.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
Recollections fell from me in flakes, in scales. All that remained of me was all that remains of anyone: a kind of iridescence. There was a fear that I would never again feel substantial, a fear that I would be a kind of psychic amputee.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)
The first human corpse I saw had housed my grandmother’s soul. I expected a serene mien. I expected to find her sleeping. I expected a transforming beauty, something painted by Millais. Instead, the old whore petticoats of skin.
The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004)