Violent gestures are ineffective for true emotional communication.

Evidence

But the message itself seemed inconsequential, purposefully vague. Did he want to be dead forever or only absent from the pain? “I wanted to die” is all it seemed to say clearly. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 436

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 436