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When a Person Wants To Die


Feeling that the world is closing you in to

the brink of suffocation with no relief

Feeling that the world has left you exposed in

the open with no comfort of companionship

 

Yearning for the hope to carry on,

when a person wants to die

they really want the will to live

 

Yearning for a purpose

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