An idea from Letters from a Stoic

The Stoics held that a person may choose to leave a life that has become only suffering. Yet one young man, so sick that he wanted to die, stayed alive because his old father could not have borne the loss. Sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

From Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

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