“The first deep-seated yearning then, in the human heart, is the yearning for life. Of all our treasures it is that which we surrender last, and with the greatest reluctance. Titles, joys, and wealth, power, ambition, honor — all of these we will let go provided we can hold on to that precious, palpitating, vibrating thing called life. The very instinct, which impels a man to put out his hand when he walks in the dark, proves that he is willing to sacrifice a part of his body rather than to endanger that which he holds most precious — his life. Not even the sad fact of suicide disproves the reality of this yearning, for in every suicide there is an illusion and a sentiment. The illusion is that suicide is total destruction. The sentiment is the desire for repose, the will to shake off the worries of life. Suicide is not so much the desire that one wants to be annihilated, but rather that one wants to be at ease, which is just another way of saying one wants to have a different life." Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Divine Romance)