A middle-aged man who takes medication wonders if it’s best just to end it all. Mariella Frostrup says he has no idea what there is yet to experience
The dilemma I have had a fun and interesting life. At times I have been enormously successful and surrounded by friends, money to do what I want and good times. At others I have been poor, alone and barely able to cope. I have a PhD from one of the world’s great universities and yet frequently feel like a total idiot. I have known intense love and also intense loneliness. Now, at the age of 50, I look behind me and see a life that is not without its good and decent moments, but going forward I look forward to its ending. If I stop taking the medication I am on, it will probably take about three years. Is this stupid? Should I bow out from life when it has nothing more to offer?
Mariella replies How would you know? It’s exactly at the point when you decide there’s nothing left – when reasons to live evade you and the pull of terminal oblivion is as compelling as gravity – that a white rabbit pops out of a hat. It may not be brandishing a full bouquet of your desires, it could just be a few daisies ripped from someone else’s lawn, but there’s usually enough in such unprecedented moments to kick-start the momentum towards happier days. How would you feel if two years into giving up your medication (I presume past the point of no return), you finally found your real passion, whether for a person or a project? You’ll never know for sure and there’s every chance that the future holds something for you, so it’s a big leap to take without very careful consideration.
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