Thanks for your remarks on the Open Post. I read "The Tower". This part stuck out to me:

It will only pull the trigger to end some greater agony, such as during sickness, when some elemental part of you literally does “want to die.” The remembering self is what chooses to endure the flu, since it knows from its internalized stories that all pain eventually subsides; failure of this mechanism is the cognitive basis for depression.

As I read it, the author says life with flu is not worth living. He also calls flu "greater agony" and "pain". I was very surprised by this. To me even a bad illness is not depressing. And flu is a light illness, where you can enjoy books or a short walk while you recover. Is the experience of illness so different between people?

What do you think of the quoted fragment above?