What drives a person to suicide is a kind of hope.

 What drives a person to suicide is a kind of hope. Perhaps the hope that death is a way out. Or the hope that annihilation will bring salvation. Yet what compels a person to commit this act is always some form of hope. Someone who is truly hopeless would not even see suicide as an option, because they would probably deem it “useless.” Even if they lived the most torturous life, they would continue to exist—if not to live, then at least to simply be.