"Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, accents of anger, words of suffering, and beating hands..." Dante, Canto III

Amazing paintings by Tom Feelings. The adjoining Shrine of the Black Madonna has a profound civic history

Deeply resonates with this poem to me, her voices become angels.

“I have been possessed
By a fire – by a true fire...
I will believe an angel ruled me thus."

Robert Browning, Paracelsus Aspires

"If we were to use the metaphor of the balance or the scales, the result would be a scale with, on the one side, life. But at the other end, there would only be a hammer. That hammer does not outweigh the temptations, but smashes the whole scale so there is nothing left to weigh, and no balance.

"The incomprehensibility lies not so much in the complexity of the suicidal world, but more in the act which, although originating in a world, is directed at a non-world, at something that is not about life, something that has no content, is unknowable, & about which nothing
meaningful can be said."

"We live together, and the suicide of one person is also the burden of another. It hurts to see those close to you suffer, or to see them want to stop living, because those others are fundamentally us."

"Questions about the meaning & sense of life and death do not play a role in this analytical medical reasoning, & therefore it is possibly a candidate for replacement by AI systems, in contrast with the real care workers, the nurses, that can principally never be replaced by any kind of robot."