[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:45:34 -0500

By the way, people might want to look at Walker Percy's _Lost in the 
Cosmos:the Last Self-Help Book_, which has an excellent section entitled 
"The Only Cure for Depression is Suicide."

He's not really advocating suicide, assisted or otherwise, and neither 
am I. He's recommending the serious contemplation of suicide as a cure 
for the petty fears that keep us from taking risks. Because if we're 
going to be afraid of life, we might as well get ready to kill 
ourselves--and if we're ready to kill ourselves, what other harm can 
anything else do to us?

One might fail? Big deal! What's failure compared to suicide? People 
might be mean to us? Big deal! If you've got the bare bodkin and aren't 
balking at the perchance to dream part, a nasty person is as threatening 
as a housefly.

Anyway, you get the idea.


Eric

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