You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. It’s not desiring the fall it’s terror of the flames. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. Yes, losing a loved one to suicide can be very different. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view i.e. This is a good sentiment to express when a friend’s loved one dies from any cause, including suicide. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. Know that its normal to feel anger towards the loved one who committed suicide at the same time that you feel overwhelming grief over their loss.
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