I always thought of the act of suicide as making a statement. It really is the highest and ultimate statement one can make about their life and circumstances. It’s more than just giving up and not being able to go on any longer. The act itself has a lot of symbolic meaning.

As someone who's tried, that's bullshit. It was about escaping the unbearable pain. That's all it was: running away from an agony so extreme it encompassed every aspect of existence.