"The man who has not given himself up to the pleasures of anguish, who has not savored in his mind the dangers of his own extintion nor relished such cruel and sweet annihilations, will never be cured of the obsession with death: he will be tormented by it, for he will have resisted it; while the man who, habituated to a discipline of horror, and meditating upon his own carrion, has deliberately reduced himself to ashes - that man will look towards death's past, and he himself will be merely a resurrected being who can no longer live. His "method" will have cured him of both life and death." - E. M. Cioran