Relevant to the demand for assisted suicide; this is St. Therese reflecting upon her own intense suffering:
I understand very well why those who don't have the faith commit suicide when they are undergoing severe sufferings. See to it when you are taking care of sick people who are the prey of violent pains that you don't leave poisonous medicines in their reach. I assure you, when one is suffering, it takes but an instance to lose one's head.
From the book, Complete Spiritual Doctrine of St. Therese of Lisieux, by Rev. Francois Jamart, O.C.D., (New York: St. Paul Publications, 1961), p. 189.
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