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Subject: Re: Re: Opinion on Suicide - a right? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 01:04:42 EST
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iuvax!dsaker    Apr 12 15:12:00 1984

Reply to Hutch:

If you just happened to see me about to leap from a high and (apart from
me and, unexpectedly, you) lonely place, you would step in and prevent me.
If I then explained to you that I wasn't merely in the grip of a sudden
gush of emotion, that I had thought long and hard about life and had
decided to end it, you would, I gather, still prevent me.
Are not you the one who is being selfish here by putting your preference
above mine.  

Let's weigh the pains.  I think that we can rely on the fact
that I am really finding life painful.  Just how much pain are you going
to suffer by letting me jump?  Don't tell me that after you save me
my pain will be healed.  That would be incredibly arrogant on your part.

I allow that many suicides are acting out of a pain that can be healed.
That justifies, perhaps, the initial stepping-in to stop them.
But it does not justify always stepping in.  You have to stop and think
carefully about what you are doing.

If I killed myself tonight, I am sure that you would not really miss me.
I wouldn't really be taking anything from your life.


     Daryel Akerlind
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