some many choices

some choose to live out

their life

and leave the world against their

will by

disease

or accident or

some unfortunate slip on the ice.

while others take

matters into their own hands,

with rope

or knife, a bottle of pills,

a ledge or bridge,

to leap from 

in a great swan dive.

but others choose 

a slower way

with smoke or drink,

enormous amounts

of food, another wife,

finding some vice that will

kill them,

but more slowly,

taking their time.