Last extract from Cloud Atlas. I’m doomed never to write anything remotely interesting, cause he’s written it all before me.

"The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateurs conductors. A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is Selfishness”. Career churchman go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living.
(…)
Cowardice is nothing to do with it- suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what’s selfish is
to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to
spare families, friends and enemies a bit of soul-searching. The
only selfishness lies in ruining strangers’ days by forcing ’em to
witness a grotesqueness. "