1. According to him, the urge to kill yourself was a sign of true intelligence and sensitivity, a desire to escape the suffocation of the ego. For those who recognised the pointlessness of everything, suicide—or total surrender—was the only alternative. 2. He said I was naïve and that he’d never, ever use painkillers to end his life. The risk of failure was too great. 3. Suicide is an aggressive act, Elza recently said. If you’re capable of ending your own life, then you must at least have the capacity for violence. 4. If you tell yourself, I’m going to remember this moment for the rest of my life, then you…