Two passages in particular stood out to me - on pages 47 and 48.
Kierkegaard states that "the torment of despair is precisely the inability to die" (48). I agree that living with the pain and constant mindset of despair is much more taxing and difficult than dying and not dealing with it anymore. Thankfully, that is not how he ends that thought process. He continues on to explain that even though "death is the end of the sickness, death is not the end (47). This statement justifies living until the despair is no longer clouding the heart of the person, instead of dying with the sickness.
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