"To those of us who have suffered severe depression - myself included - this general unawareness of how relentlessly the disease can generate an urge to self-destruction seems widespread; the problem badly needs illumination. What is saddening about Primo Levi's death is the suspicion that his way of dying was not inevitable and that with proper care he might have been rescued from the abyss. I find it difficult not to believe that if Mr Levi had been under capable hospital attention, sequestered from the unbearable daily world in a setting where he would have been safe from his self-destructive urge, and where time would have permitted the storm raging in his brain to calm itself and die away, he would be among us now."
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William Styron, Essay: 'Why Primo Levi need not have died' [published in the New York Times (Op-Ed Page) December 19 1988. Reprinted in William Styron's This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (expanded edition, 1993).] See also William Styron's book Darkness Visible (1990).
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