That signifies that the act is an irrational emotional impulse rather than the thought-out logical process that it is supposed to be. If you actually wanted to die, you would not be afraid.
Take a smoky room, where a door lies open to you. If you're choosing to not walk through that door then you should stop complaining about the quality of the air!
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One should always walk into smoke. Optimist view is that the smoke is from Cannabis.