Instead, suicide tends to take us by surprise, as loved ones or friends gradually shut us out of their suffering, to protect us or because they fear the reaction.
Ministers know they need to switch the burden of tax from fuel to direct charges such as motorway tolls or urban congestion charging, but fear voters' reaction.
"There was a panic reaction, people fear a scandal like Enron or Parmalat as soon as they hear the term 'accounting problems', " said investment analyst Thomas Veillet of Swiss firm Dynacapital.
Using a reaction equilibrium metaphor, Fear and Greed are two reasonably stable, low-energy states for a Board, and which one is the preferred resting state depends on the makeup of the group.
Fear and risk aversion rule the short term reaction to nuclear melt down in Japan, the 3rd largest economy in the world.
Ouchi and his colleagues had just set off the one thing that nuclear workers fear most - a spontaneous, uncontained nuclear chain reaction.
But Crosby also notes that IT departments initial reaction to cloud computing has been to fear the cloud, which comes with a dramatic increase in IT automation.
And would lower taxes attract businesses and people across borders, as Scots might hope, and the English might fear, at least until they start cutting in reaction?
He looked stunned, without almost any reaction at all except, perhaps, awe or even fear of the moment.
Thursday, top MBIA executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
Thursday, top MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
This question was left unresolved, with the two journalists present fearing the possibility of a cynical public reaction to the Met Office being considered judge and jury and the scientists considering this fear rather silly.
"Fear is something where there's some kind of impending danger that we sense, and it's our reaction to that impending danger, and it motivates us to protect ourselves and get out of harm's way, " Ross said.
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