To whom shall I speak today?
I am laden with misery
Through lack of an intimate …
Death is in my sight today
Like the clearing of the sky,
Like a man attracted thereby to
What he knows not.
Death is in my sight today,
Like the longing of a man to see home
When he has spent many years held in
captivity.
— Anonymous (a dispute over suicide, Egypt, before 2000 BC)
