[quote=@Tank O The Lake]
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Suicide is a result of fear.  It's fear so great it overcomes self-preservation; the animal destroys itself to avoid an overwhelming negative stimulus.

Death is merely the most convenient of the methods of compelling fear.  It is, by no means, the most powerful.
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Indeed! Thus if reality itself were to offer a universally feared consequence in which death itself a preferable alternative, it would be robbed of its power.