Atheists and suicide

[Tempus]

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I always admire people who can express complex ideas in a simple and clear manner. It's one thing to understand an idea; another thing to communicate it. Not specifically related to that point, but it made me think of this.

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I would never have the guts to commit suicide.

That's how I felt in the past (and still do, I guess). I'm not afraid of death so much as the process of dying; the ending of life rather than beginning of death. Or an attempt ending in paralysis or something like that where I become completely dependant or "trapped" inside my own body.