The joint suicide of Sir Edward and Lady Downes shows how vital a lifelong partnership can be.
vital adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of life
Suicide is characteristic of life?
Eh?
July 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Mr Potarto // Jul 18, 2009 at 11:45 pm
No, the lifelong partnership is vital, not the suicide. When they were going to be separated, he preferred death.
2 dearieme // Jul 19, 2009 at 1:14 am
“Suicide is characteristic of life?”
Well, the dead can’t commit it.
3 David Gillies // Jul 19, 2009 at 7:59 am
Yep, if literature has anything to say including, inter alia Romeo and Juliet, via Dickens’s Carton to Anna Karenina and beyond, it’s that to submit oneself to death is meaningless without the hinterland of a life loved, and loving.
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