The question is, whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is an unusual topic. It is one that has been on my mind because I have been studying Francesca Woodman. It is bold to print anything on the subject on the internet. But I want to be clear it is solely an interesting topic to me. I have unfinished buisness to complete before I can die. Right now I believe that I am willing myself to live.
The idea of Non-existence...makes me want to live~live to my fullest. nh
“The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night”
ReplyDelete—Friedrich Nietzsche
In 1969 I happened to be reading Huckleberry Finn when my aunt committed suicide. I think she did so because she was distraught after her brother was killed in Vietnam. He was drafted and was killed only three months into his tour of duty. Naturally that made me ponder suicide as well. Not as something I would do though.
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Finn faked his own murder to escape from his drunken father. So, I always thought that if things got so bad, that's the approach I would take; run away and start a new life.
Matthew: Thank you for this quote.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Nietzsche had interesting and bold opinions on suicide.
It got me to wonder...How did he die? What did he die of? How was the 'quality' of his life when he died?
I do not know.
I will have to look this up.
John. I do not knwo if your comment was public but I am assuming it was.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your openness.
About your aunt, it really is so difficult to understand why a person will commit suicide, to pinpoint what pushed them over the edge? If it could have been avoided? If life could have gotten better agian...
So many people contimplate suicide at some point in thier lives but very few take that plunge. What is it in someone that they go through with it? Or what is not in them?
Faking suicide (I know that he faked his own murder not suicide but...it got me thinking) what an interesting ponder.
Would this action be just as crule as actual suicide (most people agree that suicide is selfish)?
Running away and starting a new life: mmm.
How many people have pondered this prospect and never took action?
Thank you for mentioning this though.
It is such a alluring alternitive to suicide. You could run away from everyone and everything that you were. You could be a new person.
But then agian; are there some things that one can never run from, no matter how far he goes...