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I don't mean to lessen the touching tone of the article, but as one who lived most of their life with suicide ideation, I also seek solace in brutal honesty. One of my favorite authors, Susan Brison, put it well:
> But many trauma survivors who endured much worse than I did, and for much longer, found, often years later, that it was impossible to go on. It is not a moral failing to leave a world that has become morally unacceptable. I wonder how some can ask, of battered women, "Why didn't they leave?" while saying, of those driven to suicide by the brutal and inescapable aftermath of trauma, "Why didn't they stay?" [Holocaust survivor] Amrey wrote, "Whoever was tortured, stays tortured" and this may explain why he, Levi, Celan and other Holocaust survivors took their own lives decades after their (physical) torture ended, as if such an explanation were needed.
My favorite was #2: the guy who lives on a cliff. Along with the guy in Japan. My new heroes.
https://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Violence-Remaking-Susan-Brison/dp/0691115702