Richard Matheson

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.