The euthanasia argument: suicide is more acceptable (to one’s conscience if not to the law) if the alternative is unrelenting pain and misery; and after all, depres-sion/despair is unrelenting pain and misery.
Suicide is the ultimate catharsis: the apotheosis of inner rage and self-loathing.
According to contemporary science, “self” is the result of brain activity: no more brain means no more “self.”
Crazy hope of 11th hour reprieve — a life-altering epiphany or “divine intervention” — so long as the intention to depart is serious.
Existence is mostly painful, laborious and tedious.
Life is long but death is quick. One can decide to die, since suicide requires only one moment of effort and courage to succeed, but one cannot simply decide to live.
Fear of life.
It’s possibly the closest thing to an honorable response to the realization that one is unequal to life.