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- From: erc@khijol.upl.com (Ed Carp)
- Newsgroups: alt.support
- Subject: Why Live?
- Message-ID: <9209040022.AA12815@saturn.upl.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 00:15:09 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Reply-To: erc@apple.com
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-
- I recently went through a perion in my life where personal tragedy was piled
- on top of personal tragedy (to be fair, I'm not out of the woods yet).
- I had an SO walk out on me, I was involved in an auto accident that killed one
- person and severely brain injured another, etc. I found myself on more than
- one occasion seriously contemplating suicide as a way to end what I felt was
- my own personal hell, something which many here could probably identify
- with personally. :(
-
- In one of my more lucid moments, I realized that I wasn't *ready* to go -- I
- hadn't done lots of things that I wanted to do, and I certainly didn't want
- to die in my apartment, bleeding to death, or perhaps with a bullet in my
- head - dying alone, unwanted, unloved. I didn't want to be remembered that
- way. So...I hope this gives someone some comfort at those times in everyone's
- life when they are at the end of their rope - or feel like it...
-
- When I Go
-
- When I go,
- when I leave this earth,
- I want to be
- surrounded
- by the people I love
- and who love me
- so much that you wouldn't be able to cut it with
- a knife!
- I want to be able to say that I had done my best, and I had
- touched
- people in a way that no one ever had
- and done good.
- I want to be able to say that I had loved, but had
- not
- lost!
- I want to pass over easy, happy, satisfied at a
- life well led,
- not in pain and agony and misery, by my
- own hand.
- And I've decided not to
- die
- until I've had what I want!
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com, khijol!erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "I never thought I'd see the President of the United States on nationwide TV,
- giving out 1-800 numbers." -- Susan Spencer, CBS White House correspondent
-
-