Once you realize that you have the capacity to end your own life, things will never be the same. You cannot unlearn the desire to kill yourself. That little red button in your brain never goes away, never truly disarms itself. You may eke out a tolerable existence, you may even find some form of lasting happiness, but that button remains waiting to be pressed.
They say suicide is contagious, that if you knew someone who committed suicide, you are also infected, as if it’s some sort of virus. They have it wrong. Suicide, or the power to kill oneself, is nothing more than knowledge. Like […]