Posted by aliI on June 4, 2002, at 16:51:42
...I am older now, with nearly all of my certainties pared away. I have watched people die. I have known people killed -- by others, by circumstance, or by themselves.
And I have listened, sitting bemused and skeptical at the edge of mortality, as the discussion of suicide has moved from whispers of grief and accusation to proclamations about a right to die.
And I remember the time when a day didn't pass that I did not think of killing myself. That was a time when I was stronger physically and weaker emotionally, a time when I loved no one, least of all myself, a time when I had been given a right to live and wasted my time thinking about dying.
That was long ago, and I still remember the woman who sat across from me, shadowed by the evening light streaming in through the doorway, depression eating away at her soul like a cancer.
All I know is life. All I know is to cling to it, to celebrate its joys and comprehend its sorrows. And I know despair can kill you.
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About the writer
Gary Presley is a writer living in Missouri taken from salon dot comYep. This Gary fella speaks truth.
Despair can, does, and will kill.
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