Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.