Wasserpistole · 7 answers · 4y

Composer F. Liszt wrote in 1877 in a letter to a friend: "I am extremely tired of living; but as I believe that God's Fifth Commandment "thou shalt not kill" also applies to suicide, I go on existing" What do you think?

it's anyone's game when it comes to interpreting this. maybe even as far as "thou shalt not kill mans choice of life", whatever destination might bring less sorrow. forever dying inside with next to no (objectively) feasable escape from suffering sounds like hell.

Well you kinda have to proscribe against suicide based on Christian ideology, as a practical matter - otherwise people might just start killing themselves so they could boogie on to heaven ...but that is like cutting in line though and is RUDE...he's right, you wait until the Lawd calls for you SMH

It was probably pretty boring in 1877, can't blame the dude for being tired of living when there was only like four things to do and one of them was just die horribly of Typhus or some shit

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