Fri, 30 Aug 2002
Oblivio on Suicide
I found this piece by Michael Barrish while reading Mark Pilgrim. Michael says:I've been corresponding with a young woman, a college student, who is both brilliant and suicidal. She plans to go to law school if she doesn't kill herself. She hasn't said this exactly, but that is the gist. I am loathe to lobby for one choice over the other. Suicide makes as much or little sense as anything else (particularly law school!), and besides, it's her call.I think I have a rough idea why bright people choose suicide. It is the only human experience in which the outcome cannot be known. It is curiosity killed the cat and ignorance is bliss united. And sometimes, for a fleeting moment, it seems like a reasonable choice next to a reality that is, in and of itself, very dark.
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