Somebody I work with commited suicide last night. I didn't know him very well though. Some people were pretty bummed, and a few people went home when they found out. Personally, if it was what he wanted, I don't see any point in feeling bad about it. If he felt bad enough about his life to make the decision to end it, who's to say it wasn't the right decision.
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance-so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.
- Graham Green