An attempt to resolve what the mind considers to be an irresolvable issue, creates a third option. It basically says "If I can't beat it or accept it, I'll utterly deny it, by dying." If the minor league version of the third option doesn't resolve the conflict, you’re in deep shit.

If you don't recognise you have options, then you can't make decisions.

It's a legitimate option to rest him yes, it's something that's crossed my mind, it's something that I will be thinking about and it's something that I will have a chat with him about.

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

There will be a time in your life, that you get stuck with something grave. That for whatever reasons, you just can't think of other options but death. When that time comes, think the other way. Because if a circle has no sides, it will always have a center.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.