One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Bio: Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the post-war world'.
