Quote of the Day: The Virtue of Feeling Dead
Meditating on the thoughts that people to commit suicide
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."Still, call me strange, but I happen to find a certain appeal in the conviction that one is, though otherwise lucid, nevertheless already dead. Provided there were no uncomfortable symptoms of rigor mortis cramping up my hands, nor delusory devils biting at my feet, how liberating it would be to be able to write like a dead man and without that hobbling, hesitating fear of being unblinkingly honest."
--Psychologist Jesse Bering, in an article for Scientific American about the thoughts that lead people to suicide
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