It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure. - Edmund Cooper

But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope.

Behind the apparent unreason there is reason.

Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death.