Love and death …

… If Christianity is a romance, helping those we love to die is an abandonment | Giles Fraser | Commentisfree | The Guardian.

In contrast, the logic of the romantic is that the centre of gravity in human life has to be outside of oneself to be meaningful. If it's all about my choices, then human life has withered to the dimensions of my paltry imagination. 

I have had an uncommon acquaintance, starting — but not ending — from the time, around age 11, I discovered the body of someone who had killed himself near our house. I think Father Fraser is quite right.