Warning: The article I refer to may be very troubling and triggering for some!
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It takes a certain intellectual courage for a man to frankly recognize that he’s nothing more than a human tatter, an abortion that survived, a madman not mad enough to be committed; and once he recognizes this, it takes even more moral courage to devise a way of adapting to his destiny, to accept without protest and without resignation, without any gesture or hint of a gesture, the organic curse imposed on him by Nature. —Fernando Pessoa
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The article I refer to is entitled:
Tales from the New Asylum: Slow Poison, by James L. Knoll IV, MD. When reading it, initially I was saddened. I thought I was reading a tragedy, and perhaps it is.
The account also is about purpose and meaning in life. Plagued by a lack of meaning and then kidney failure, the protagonist chooses to live his last days his way. Many may disagree but I say good for him.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/disp.../10168/1987063