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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: what kind of suicide?
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 15:44:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 15:44:24 1984
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    mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) says:

    ... but you should give them some credit for having the courage to
    do it. Many people out there die a slow death without ever
    commiting what you would call a suicide...

Suicide does not stem from courage, but from fear. When the fear of life
overrides the fear of death, suicide results. Suicide is therefore not the
home of the hero, but the dwelling of the ultimate coward: that person who
is afraid of themself. 

We are all dying a slow death, for each moment we live we come one moment
closer to death. I don't see anything wrong with that. No matter how bad a
life may seem, it is better than the alternative, since the alternative is
no life. If you disagree with that, ask the survivors of the Holocaust or
Hiroshima whether they would prefer to be dead. I know that there have been
many times when I wished for death, but each time I found something
(anything) to live for. Anything, no matter how bad, is better than nothing
at all.

chuq

-- 
From the house at Pooh Corner:		Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach
{fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui		Have you hugged your Pooh today?

What's it feel like to have not done it for 200 years?
204, if you count my marriage...		--- woody allen, sleeper