over the edge

Fei Ge - the man who had just meticulously checked Rui and Michael’s harnesses before sending them over the cliff - knows better than most the feeling of stepping back over the edge.

"If I had lost that frame I don't know what I would have done - maybe given up. I was over the edge mentally."

"I was dizzy with loneliness. I saw how easy it would be to step over the edge and simply disappear. For a few crazy minutes I couldn't imagine any other option. I did this five or six times," she said.

"We would describe general practice as being on the precipice and, for a significant number of practices, this could push them over the edge," he said.

But in the midst of a divorce, days away from what would have been my 10-year wedding anniversary that will now be just another Saturday, I worried that watching this movie that I had previously seen with such dewy, life-filled eyes during much happier points of my life would send me over the edge now that the grand finale future I'd envisioned for myself felt hopelessly out of reach.