Couldn't resist pointing to this very well shaped write up that discusses the gruesome situation that seems mere possibilty, but embraces someone somewhere and the horror is known to only those who've been through it, and what compels them to move to what might probably become an hasty decision that takes their life.
I would've pointed to this from my link blog rather, but this one with all its comments is too good to read & deserved to be mentioned here. Click on!

UPDATE: sham's epilogue to the same in Kannada.