To quote Alan Watts...
Now this leads me to a quite different matter with which I want to close this program. I am sure you all know by now that Louis Hill, the man who founded and ran this station for so long recently took his own life. Not, he said for angeror for despair, but for peace. I know there are those who have shaken their heads, saying “Too bad he couldn’t take it.” For we have been drilled into the idea that to take one’s own life is, at root, a cowardly solution to a problem. Louis Hill was a man who believed very much in the importance and necessity of struggle at the spiritual level. So much so that we have often had arguments about it. However he was at the same time a pacifist and a poet and a great humanist. And this was simply to say that he was extremely sensitive. He was not made to “take it” as if he were a human punching bag. AN dthus life forced him to discover what Chesterton called, “The splendid limitations of being a man.” For the depth and quality of human consciousness is outlined and defined by its borders beyond which there are thing which it cannot take. Thus our very weaknesses are our strengths. And as Lao-Tze said: “Suppleness and tenderness are the commcomitents of life, rigidity and hardness are the comcomitants of death.”