wallace-l: the last moments...

[zengirl at rcn.com]

My guess, based on the little that his family members have said, is  
that he had the same kind of depression that is described by William  
Styron in "Darkness Visible," which is a kind that is so black that  
there's really no real rational thought or deliberation at all (at  
most, there is just the instinct that the pain is too much and must  
be stopped).

On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:20 PM, RS wrote:

> Look, I’m really not trying to intellectualize this, or to turn our  
> beloved’s passing into fodder for conversation.  But I really need  
> to know.  In those moments when he did it, was he sane or was he  
> driven over the edge, basically temporarily insane in those last  
> moments.  Is suicide by definition irrational and “crazy,” and thus  
> is the act undertaken by a person whose sanity has suddenly and  
> profoundly left them, or can it be a calm, rational, calculated  
> decision?  What haunts me most is the potential fear and feeling of  
> loss he might’ve been feeling when it happened.  But I think, maybe  
> if he were almost in a near deranged state, that it might be easier  
> to handle.  Just wondering if anyone has knowledge of this.
>
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