As, however, it was just the suffering which it so shuns that was able, as mortification of the will, to bring it to the denial of itself, and hence to freedom, so in this respect the suicide is like a sick man, who, after a painful operation which would entirely cure him has been begun, will not allow it to be completed, but prefers to retain his disease.
horrela ikuspegi horretatik suizidak gaixo baten antza du, ebakuntza mingarri baten bidez erabat sendatu ahal izango litzatekeenarena, hasi eta gero, bukatzen utzi ez, baizik gaixotasunari iraunarazi nahi dionarena.