Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton used to sit around talking about ways to do themselves in. They considered themselves part of a tribe of potential suicides, as something a part from others. I wonder it there isn't something to that. Kurt Vonnegut said he used to think about suicide as a good way of getting out of cocktail parties. Not as a matter of being depressed, but just as a way of dealing with the overhwleming tasks of being human. I think suicides are different than dpressives.
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