Here is the stage where the feelings which comprise Pavlov's concept of transmarginal stress is begun. There is a limit to the pain and panic any living organism can bear. When that limit has been reached there is a sudden, dramatic and drastic reorientation of the whole will. Instead of struggling to live, the organism is struggling to die. Life under such conditions is intolerable.
Death is preferable.
Those who have been intensely active in their will to live become intensely active in their desire to die, and in the steps they take to achieve it. Similarly, those who are passive and lukewarm in their will to live, remain so when it has become the will to die. Dr. Lake discontinued the use of LSD in 1970. He had found that using deep breathing techniques with primal therapy was as effective as or superior to LSD therapy. Those who relive the death experience in and around birth seem to finally resolve that fixation on death and suicide.