A lot of people were going on about suicide attempts but this wasn't one. You couldn't have done it if you had tried.

If you were going to commit suicide you wouldn't do it like this, it was a complete accident,

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Months after my wrists ripping, a talk therapist referred to the act as self-hatred. Until then nobody had said this to me. Did everyone presume that I already knew so? People say it all the time. It’s safer to draw this conclusion. Throw in cowardice and you have an insulated public. I was not enraged at all. I was panic stricken. How could I hate myself for wanting to stop such physical sickness and terror? Mine was an act of caretaking, compassion, love. You cannot share this insight with therapists because they think such encourages recurrence. Have you ever stopped diarrhea with a prayer? If you have to go, you go. If you have to die, you die.

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.

It's hard to believe that more people have died from suicide than homicide, but it's a sad fact,