"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy Review 2

Charlize Theron plays the mother
and wife in "The Road"

Book Response 1: #2 (LA) Write down one quote or short passage that you really loved, you reacted strongly to, or made you stop and think. Write your reaction to that passage.

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 If that doesn't give you the feeling of living in a black hole, your emotions could be comparable to that of a 1st year dentist anesthetizing his patient with what he thought was the correct dosage of Novocaine but in reality it could fool an elephant into thinking he was having a lethal stroke. The level of seriousness and desperation McCarthy injects into this cold-hearted passage is astounding. Coming to terms with such a horror in real life would be unimaginable for me, yet it is done with such brutality and arrogance in this story that the feeling it invokes is indescribable. From my perspective most suicides seem to come from a feeling of sheer desperation, of nothing else to do or feel but pain, and that there is no hope left for you. While yes, she does say she has given up, it is not done out of instinctive, illogical emotion. It is done with a clear, rational mind, no different than deciding what to cook that morning with a touch of frustration. She presents her case eloquently and argues it defiantly, before executing her plan with intent. All the while her husband pleads for her to do what would be irrational and illogical in her mind, and of course the jury is in her favor, as her argument holds more truth in her eyes. 
Can you imagine existing in such a state of intolerable depression? To be brought down to an alien level, a hellish level, that there is no escape from? Because if you look at the world around you, everything and everyone that once was beautiful is gone. A level where suicide is not only a relief, as I'm sure it is in reality, but to where it is the only logical, concise, and best way to go?