Oct 08, 2014 at 03:46 PM
I think the statistic differential between completions and attempts in men vs. women (more completed attempts by men, and less by women but with many more incomplete attempts) is a clear indication that it's not all that easy to die. Just as there are a number of elements required in order for life to occur, so it is with death.
A likely inability to finish the job has probably been my own best preventative on those occasions that I've considered it. I remember trying to explain to my last therapist that an inclination towards a possible attempt would actually be an improvement on my current lack of will towards taking any affective action, but he didn't really get that. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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