The article reflects on the author's experience with a support group for individuals who have struggled with suicidal thoughts. This community provides a space where they can share dark humor about life and death, acknowledging the struggles of existence and the reality of their inner battles. Through humor, the group members engage with their pain while also allowing for growth, correction, and understanding among each other. The author emphasizes how their collective experiences create a profound connection, navigating the complexities of survival in a challenging world.
I picked a pretty rough time to actually want to be alive; in retrospect, back when I wanted to die, things were not actually all that bad.
The group is informal but long-running...a place where we laugh at one another's jokes about death which are actually jokes about living.
It is a place where, among other things, we can luxuriate in sometimes being wrong.
The joke acknowledges that we are perhaps coming to a collective understanding that there is a door closing, more quickly for some than for others.
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