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Sometimes I’ve been rehearsing my suicide or researching methods. As much as I might plan for ages, my attempts have often been impulsive; right now is the right time. If I am rehearsing and researching it could become “right now” at any point. So I reach out to prevent it from becoming the “right time.”
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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