Well, not quite the same, but there’s the story of the guy who decided to spend a whole bunch of money on drugs and hookers and then kill himself, and had such a great time that he gained the will to live.
Comment on Anon creates a mystery
paraproto@szmer.info 14 hours agoI wonder if there is a level of elaboration in suicide planning where you stop being suicidal, because now you have a lot of interests and leafs of motivation are now so far from the original trunk, that you now have will to live.
Now you like walks near the shore, checking weather patterns and how they form so you could notice them with your naked eye. Now you picked up balooning hobby, maybe you got in contact with other people on a forum, maybe you read a book. Now you got interested in materials science and chemistry, you organized a little lab somewhere and got sucked up by this fascinating subject. Later on you could start thinking about marine life and if it would be affected by your actions. That would be another rabbit hole. Maybe someone asked on the ballooning forum about glues and it was something you have recently read from a chemistry book and you recommend against said glue, because it could be harmful for marine life.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
The suicide is just the constraint. It’s the device that drives the plot. The central thesis is the mystery. How is the mystery preserved beyond the magician’s provably final act?
We haven’t broached the logistics of filling a large quantity of balloons with a lifting gas, without leaving clues to that fact. Do we have gas cylinders lying around? If not, did someone see us disposing of them shortly before the coroner’s estimated TOD? Some balloons are likely to pop during the process; do a few scraps of latex give away the plot?