The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.
Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.