hat about his family?"
"What about his family?"
"Well was there any history of suicide?"
"An extensive history. His father killed himself."
"And what weapon did he use to kill himself?"
"Shotgun. Placed inside his mouth."
"There is something admirable in a man who chooses a shotgun over a handgun. Any man can twist his wrist around to shove a metal barrel into his mouth and pull the trigger. To have to place your shotgun on the ground and use your toe to pull the trigger with the barrel in your mouth, now that is really committing suicide. I think a suicide is validated when you use multiple appendages. It shows commitment and thought."
"Or mental deterioration. So do you know who he is?"
"No I have no idea who any of these people are. You always ask me to guess which famous writer would go with each suicide. I had no idea you would try it."
"What's the point anymore? All of these writers killed themselves, why shouldn't I?"
"Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. I've known the answers all along. I've just been stalling. But that's not the point. The point is is that everyone knows Woolf and Hemingway. They're taught in classrooms, they are examined by literary critics, they have a legacy. You know what people don't know? Your name. You haven't earned the right to kill yourself. No one is going to cite your suicide in a game. They'll say Woolf, they'll say Hemingway, they'll say Sylvia Plath. They will not say you. Not now. So do this later. Do it when people will say, 'That was a suicide. I've never seen something like that before. She must have really been a great, depressed writer'.
At that moment, on that ledge, on that rooftop, in the middle of the darkened city, with a suicide worldwide happening once every 40 seconds; she took a step forward.
"What about his family?"
"Well was there any history of suicide?"
"An extensive history. His father killed himself."
"And what weapon did he use to kill himself?"
"Shotgun. Placed inside his mouth."
"There is something admirable in a man who chooses a shotgun over a handgun. Any man can twist his wrist around to shove a metal barrel into his mouth and pull the trigger. To have to place your shotgun on the ground and use your toe to pull the trigger with the barrel in your mouth, now that is really committing suicide. I think a suicide is validated when you use multiple appendages. It shows commitment and thought."
"Or mental deterioration. So do you know who he is?"
"No I have no idea who any of these people are. You always ask me to guess which famous writer would go with each suicide. I had no idea you would try it."
"What's the point anymore? All of these writers killed themselves, why shouldn't I?"
"Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. I've known the answers all along. I've just been stalling. But that's not the point. The point is is that everyone knows Woolf and Hemingway. They're taught in classrooms, they are examined by literary critics, they have a legacy. You know what people don't know? Your name. You haven't earned the right to kill yourself. No one is going to cite your suicide in a game. They'll say Woolf, they'll say Hemingway, they'll say Sylvia Plath. They will not say you. Not now. So do this later. Do it when people will say, 'That was a suicide. I've never seen something like that before. She must have really been a great, depressed writer'.
At that moment, on that ledge, on that rooftop, in the middle of the darkened city, with a suicide worldwide happening once every 40 seconds; she took a step forward.
