But there are those who cannot wait .... I've been involved in an online discussion recently about suicide ... began with talk of Robin Williams' awful mess that he left behind. I have wondered 'why so angry?' Why not take a car and miss a turn or mistakenly walk into traffic instead of making a statement.
My trip to Quebec was full of my chipping Psalms: mah gadlu ma'asecha, yah? .... how great are your creations, God!
The conversation about suicide is like most online conversations between psych-types ... like the mystical snake Oroboros eating his own tail ... everybody, including me, ending up where they began. Last night I wrote:
"I think the human animal considers suicide ... They consider it because they CAN consider it .... .... akin to what they say about dogs licking their genitals or butts ... Being human came along with the possibility of reflecting on the worthwhileness of continuing the process. In transcending instinctual behavior, much has become possible .... I think it was Kurt Eissler who used to point out that perversion is uniquely human ... that is, doing something that one CONSIDERS one oughtn't do is uniquely human or as I once wrote I've never met a Cur who required candlelight to mount an estrous bitch. We humans don't rightly have even an instinct of self preservation ... hence,for instance, Freud used the word Triebe and Triebregung rather than Instinkt. If'n you can reflect on it, it is no longer instinctual."
I'm here for the long haul but do get those who like the song says "take the easy way out."