solitary flight

§5 Suicide demands intervention

Suicide demands intervention.

To self-murderers who would die by sword or fire or water: We will tear you from evil and drag you to the good. We will hold up a mirror to unconceal you your own enemy. We will show you in yourself the miserable fate in store: namely, eternal damnation. We will appeal to your reason if possible. We will punish you if necessary. We will take you alive so’st to have you repent and receive forgiven.

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Augustine, Letters 173, 185 & 204.