“That’s why I’ve never understood suicide. Even those suffering from great depression or guilt–don’t they feel Christ the Comforter in their hearts, giving them hope?”
“You’re asking me?”
“God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.”
“In my view, suicide is not really the wish for life to end.”
“What is it, then?”
“It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
“As Adam and Eve hid from the Lord.”
“Because they were naked.”
“If only such sad people could remember: Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is still sweet. Let it go on.”
(thinking of Richard. wondering if he felt naked.)
Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Shadow.