Full Idea
There are many occasions on which a man should leave life not only bravely but for reasons which are not as pressing as they might be - the reasons which restrain us being not so pressing either.
Gist of Idea
Suicide may be appropriate even when it is not urgent, if there are few reasons against it
Source
Seneca the Younger (Letters from a Stoic [c.60], 077)
Book Reference
Seneca: 'Letters from a Stoic (Selections)', ed/tr. Campbell,Robin [Penguin 1969], p.125
A Reaction
This is an interesting and startling claim from the great champion of suicide, who nobly and memorably committed suicide himself. But we all dread a loved one miscalculating Seneca's dialectic, and dying when living would have been better.