Man's Search for Meaning
What did Frankl call to "run into the wire"? What role did this play in camp life, and in the mental lives of prisoners in camp?
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To "run into the wire" was a way to describe "the most popular method of suicide," which was touching an electrically charged barbed-wire fence. Suicide was common, as prisoners lost hope. It was also strictly against prison rules to interfere with a suicide in process. Therefore the only way to help a suicidal person was to help them before they attempted suicide. The author tried this on several occasions.