Before reading the rest, I wanted to leave my impressions. I was reminded of Walker Percy's excellent, though somewhat dated, Lost in the Cosmos. He talks somewhere about suicide and gives the advice to consider it as a legitimate option. Most potential suicides are too frightened to actually consider the pros and cons of the act and remain lost in the maudlin sentiments of the thing. Percy says, and I can to a limited extent support him, that when we actually consider the thing as doable, rather than as unthinkable, we are enabled to see it and move past it rather than obsess over it and then become 'ex-suicides' who have chosen to live, who live not because they have to but because they choose to, and are free to do otherwise. Anyway looking forward to the rest. Here is a thing I wrote about this a long time ago, with some comfort from my favorite prophet Hosea, and a short bit about Job.
Before reading the rest, I wanted to leave my impressions. I was reminded of Walker Percy's excellent, though somewhat dated, Lost in the Cosmos. He talks somewhere about suicide and gives the advice to consider it as a legitimate option. Most potential suicides are too frightened to actually consider the pros and cons of the act and remain lost in the maudlin sentiments of the thing. Percy says, and I can to a limited extent support him, that when we actually consider the thing as doable, rather than as unthinkable, we are enabled to see it and move past it rather than obsess over it and then become 'ex-suicides' who have chosen to live, who live not because they have to but because they choose to, and are free to do otherwise. Anyway looking forward to the rest. Here is a thing I wrote about this a long time ago, with some comfort from my favorite prophet Hosea, and a short bit about Job.
https://comfortwithtruth.substack.com/p/death-pt-1
https://comfortwithtruth.substack.com/p/death-pt-2