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Words like Morphine

Andy Kirkpatrick
Oct 17, 2022
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The post I did last week about suicide had a lot of responses, as it’s an increasingly dark feature of modern life (you could even view it as an indulgence), and so people like to share their thoughts. One thing that kept coming up was that I’m not totally heartless and unemotional on the subject, and to prove that point I kept sharing a link to this piece I wrote back in 2017 (it got picked up by Rock & Ice, and featured in Unknown Pleasures). I thought I’d share it, as it seems to chime with certain people at certain times of life.

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