I have a number of friends who have attempted suicide or who have seriously contemplated it. They've all said (in the same chatroom conversation) that once they're over it and no longer wanting to stop living, they look back and go "What the hell was I thinking? That wasn't me at all."
They all agreed that it was an irrational state of mind, and that there is nothing natural about wanting to end your own life. A person in that frame of mind is by definition capable of doing things they'd normally think of as atrocious.
So... we remember him the way we want to remember him, which is probably the way he would have wanted to be remembered-- because that was the real him.
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Date: 2005-09-19 06:25 am (UTC)I have a number of friends who have attempted suicide or who have seriously contemplated it. They've all said (in the same chatroom conversation) that once they're over it and no longer wanting to stop living, they look back and go "What the hell was I thinking? That wasn't me at all."
They all agreed that it was an irrational state of mind, and that there is nothing natural about wanting to end your own life. A person in that frame of mind is by definition capable of doing things they'd normally think of as atrocious.
So... we remember him the way we want to remember him, which is probably the way he would have wanted to be remembered-- because that was the real him.