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Fall, Fire, and Life: "The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to
kill herself doesn't do so out of quote "hopelessness' or any
abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square.
And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing.
The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain
unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped
person will eventually jump from the window of a burning
high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning
windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just
as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively
at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of
falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror,
the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to
death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not
desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down
on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!',
can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have
personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand
a terror way beyond falling."
David Foster Wallace

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