I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.
Joanne Greenbergsuicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
Joanne GreenbergShe now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.
Joanne Greenberg