Society says "don't say that," or you'll be hospitalized, given drugs, because pharmacology save you, even if you don't want it to.

The mandatory reporters will tattle if you tell them how you really feel, if you tell them you don't want to wake up tomorrow, or that you can't deal with your sorrow.

And a man who's lost it all, his family, his very soul, finds himself with nowhere to turn, as the flames continue to burn him into nothingness.

To borrow a line from George Bailey, "Help me Clarence, I want to be dumb again."

And that is all society's framework can offer. Their pills, and their shrinks can numb you back into oblivious disregard, which is another version of what already exists.

P.D., Jay Vincent