With a laugh, Safrin reached over to muse Emmett's hair gently as she shook her head with a gracious sort of adoration.
[say]"Because it isn't like this. Death, however lovely, is not life. Would you really give up all this? What you have, the people you know? In death you are with Mort, but here you have all those who love you, all those you love."[/say] It would likely mean little to Emmett to be told that both she and Vi—and indeed Mort—were very unhappy with the notion of suicide. It was hard to simultaneously paint death as a place one would not want to leave, but in the same breath urge the boy not to rush towards it.
[say]"Because it isn't like this. Death, however lovely, is not life. Would you really give up all this? What you have, the people you know? In death you are with Mort, but here you have all those who love you, all those you love."[/say] It would likely mean little to Emmett to be told that both she and Vi—and indeed Mort—were very unhappy with the notion of suicide. It was hard to simultaneously paint death as a place one would not want to leave, but in the same breath urge the boy not to rush towards it.
