2000 years age Pliny the Younger wrote of a friend contemplating suicide:
"...but those who destroy themselves leave us under the inconsolable reflection, that
they had it in their power to have lived longer.
I reason with him and he exclaimed, "...do you suppose I endure life so long under these cruel agonies? It is with the hope that I may outlive, at least for one day, that villain but by supplying
me with some reflections that are new and resistless, which I have never heard, never read,
anywhere else.
For all that I have heard, and all that I have read, occur to me of
themselves; but all these are by far too weak to support me under so
severe an affliction. Farewell.
"...but those who destroy themselves leave us under the inconsolable reflection, that
they had it in their power to have lived longer.
I reason with him and he exclaimed, "...do you suppose I endure life so long under these cruel agonies? It is with the hope that I may outlive, at least for one day, that villain but by supplying
me with some reflections that are new and resistless, which I have never heard, never read,
anywhere else.
For all that I have heard, and all that I have read, occur to me of
themselves; but all these are by far too weak to support me under so
severe an affliction. Farewell.
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