Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm

On Feb 11, 8:36=A0pm, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
> In article <foq6jt$b1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:
>
> > I don't really understand where the idea of death as seductive
> > comes from. =A0I've never seen a dead body that looked happy, even
> > the ones that did it to themselves.
>
> I doubt that many suicides are happy about the thought of being
> dead. =A0It's just that they really don't want to be alive.

Because either being dead is the only way to make whatever pain they
are in, physical or emotional, stop or they think it is.  Or at least
that's the impression I get.  I understand the feeling.

Sometimes the only thing propping me up is that the worst pain is yet
to come and I can fantasize that it won't, and as with Miles, I've
gotten too old to think that death won't find me if I don't go looking
for it.