It's the End — The Sickness Onto Death Part Two lyrics

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So, to be sick unto death is not to be able to die —
Yet, not as though there were hope of life; no.
The hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope — death — is not
available.
When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life.
But when ones becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger,
One hopes for death.
So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope,
Despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
It is in this last sense that despair is the sickness unto death.
This agonising contradiction, this sickness in the self,
Everlastingly to die, to die and yet not to die,
To die the death.
For dying means that it is all over;
But dying the death means to live to experience death.