you can fight against the urge to die but
you’ll only ever find that 100% eventually give in
to scratch said itch and
if this is all there is to life the
hope you have will fail you soon as you realize
these are bad betting odds
and then you re-evaluate your hope
the sieve and the sand 
My husband is an undertaker. He likes to say that statistics show every 1 out of 1 people will die.
Here’s my slanted view on the subject of hope…
http://noranoir.wordpress.com/2006/02/12/what-do-you-expect/
yup.