http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/ Poetics in Live Performance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-379 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:12 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-379 It was a curious relationship, Gordon. We worked together, though because of our age difference, we didn’t socialize at that young age. We never bumped into each other. He sought me out when he wanted to find me. It was definitely an odd thing. You’re right that we can never know why someone takes the leap. We just have to try to learn from their lives to warn us against our deaths.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-378 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:47:07 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-378 If your mind is in such a state that suicide is an option to living away from the pain, I would argue that person doesn’t know where the flames are coming from or if they will ever end or if there is a safe escape available — and so they take the only option they believe they have left: The Final Leap.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-377 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:06:36 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-377 It is an incredibly sad story, David, especially in that he reached out to you so often for other things and not when he was at his lowest. There are so many what ifs that get into play but I’ve learned that it is futile to sit and wonder about the perhaps when the present keeps on pressing forward.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-376 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:43:12 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-376 David,
There were only two options in WTC – death and death, nothing else. If I have to pick a way of dying I will choose the lesser painful one, that’s obvious – that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t want to survive if the option is there. The option of living wasn’t there in WTC.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-375 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:29:23 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-375 When your mind is on fire, Anne, sometimes the only way to get away from the licking flames is to blindly leap. That’s why it is so important for the depressed and the despondent to try to reach out to others for help.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-374 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:13:12 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-374 Sad story. Glad you remember him. I understand running from fire.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-373 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:49:21 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-373 The World Trade Center destruction confirmed a lot of research about pain and people. When faced with a decision to burn alive or leap off a building — people will always choose to jump than to be burned alive. That concept was proven years before with rats who always chose to leap into the unknown rather than stay alive and suffer pain with no end.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-372 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:41:18 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-irrevocable-end-of-jamison-paul-mussack/#comment-372 Committing suicide may be liberating to someone but it does put people around him/ her in tremendous misery…everyone starts blaming themselves for not understanding the person enough and not doing something about it…whereas in reality it might be a chemical disorder that is the real cause. If only one thinks for a moment about his near and dear ones before consciously taking a decision of ending life…

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