The Literature of Suicide

[Byron In Exile]

The suicide scene is a secondary consideration *FOR SOME* but not for others, I assure you. In the real world, there are people who contemplate how their bodies will be found. They *want* to be found laid out all beautiful and innocent (or horrible and shocking), and they'll say as much if they either don't succeed or sometimes in their suicide notes. That they wanted to shock or induce sadness or remorse in the person who found them. It was something they considered.

For people who desire to die the primary consideration is death. The secondary consideration is appearance. This is the priority order for one who is seriously intent on suicide.

If the primary consideration is appearance, and its consequent effect on the living, or settling scores, getting revenge, making people sorry, or other things of that nature, then death is really a secondary consideration, and the likelihood of success is greatly diminished. The person secretly hopes to survive the attempt and reap the rewards of their actions. Methods more likely to succeed are rejected in favor of methods more likely to fail that might look better to other people.

So you're wrong with that blanket statement.

So you're the sort of person who's more concerned with who's right than what's right.

Thanks for the update on that.