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When Suicide is not Suicide

(Vatchi):  Sotto, you are not Jim. Perhaps your
distraction is a wall you have put up. Consider yourself lucky that you are not
him. I don't know if you know this, Sotto, but that auditory hallucination, that
simple "Jump!" that Jim heard, that's late-stage chronic alcoholism. If he had
gotten worse, he might have jumped out that window and people would have quickly
written it off as suicide.

   Some suicides are not suicides at all, Sotto. They are addiction having
the last word.

   Some suicides are not suicide at all.

 

from "All Drinking Aside" (rough draft), Chapter 3