Whilst on the subject of suicide, perhaps someone can help me here with a
quote.
This is probably not the direct quote but a paraphrase of it, "nobody ever
commits suicide after a good nights sleep and a decent voiding of the
bowels"
Well last night I was in want of sleep and my bowels were playing me up
something rotten so something has to be said for that :)
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Human rights and mental health, Thinking about suicide book
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> I will tell you this though, suicide is a bloody sight more complex than
> most bloody pundits consider.
>
> You have got to have been there to really know what I mean, there is not
any
> philosophy about it, no fucking Durkheim and his sociology and statistics,
> no all sorts of other stuff either,
>
> It's not particularly pretty, well not at all is it.
>
> I have revisited and echoed my own suicidal intent however with the
> hindsight of art, that might seem bizarre, distastefull even, but hell
it's
> authentic which a lot of this
>
psycho-academical-sociological-ethical-tragical-pastoral-historical-comical
> bullshit is not.
>
> Am I maybe unique in that when I was so intent upon it (well maybe only
99%)
> and I phoned the Samaritans, and the guy said to me, that he gave up, that
> he could not convince me of any reason why not to, that I had gone so far
> that I might as well do it because he couldn't stop me.
>
> Well I didn't of course but that was synchronicity
>
> It's fuck all to do with the construct of "mental health" fuck all, you
get
> that , you get that yet, did you get that? Did you?
>
> Larry
>
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