Suicide may be a declaration of bankruptcy which passes judgement on a life as one long history of failures. But it is a history which also amounts at least to this one decision which, by its very finality, is not wholly a failure. Some kind of minimal freedom the freedom to die in one's own way and in one's own time has been salvaged from the wreck of all those unwanted necessities.
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