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I write about suicide attempt prevention from time to time, from the perspective of someone, me, who has spoken to the soul of a dear friend who suicided and how that conversation helped me get through a severe episodic depression the following year without my suicidal thoughts becoming ideations nor attempted. My most complete essay on these matters to date https://medium.com/illumination/dizain-of-suicide-72bcde4dc8d8 starts with this poem I wrote:

"Suicide provides no relief at all

On ledge imagining end to my pain

Pavement streaming toward me will not end fall

Just before break solution becomes plain

My penance to help others to refrain

Thought my loved ones better off without me

Truth’s too likely they’ll header into sea

Had I known that death cannot be cheated

Baring deep secrets would cure malady

Death would not have left loved ones defeated"

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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