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The case for not killing yourself

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Power of Smiles

Suicide is almost always the wrong decision. I think that we can't meaningfully talk about having any rights at all unless we also have the right to our own lives. Taking your life unexpectedly in the middle of, you know, whatever it is you're going through without talking to the people around you all this is an incredibly violent thing. You just created something good and you don't know how that smile might have completely changed that person's day.

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