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- Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
- Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for…
- the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness…
- Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
- Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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