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

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.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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.

If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.