RIP - DFW

My first thought was Why? But I think, if you have read DFW, you know the answer.
To quote
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor to its essential horror.
Think of the old cliche about the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many cliches, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master
Harper's have collated his essays on http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557. Thanks to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/17/notes091708.DTL&feed=rss.mmorford