The Ride Down To Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller, centered on a bigamist who has a near-death experience and is forced to confront the dual lives he’s been living with two separate wives. Though the story is mainly a commentary on societal pressures surrounding monogamy, there’s an undercurrent of whether the near-death experience was an attempted suicide and the characters speak frankly about life and death.
Despite this not being one of Miller’s more popular works, there’s something to the commentary that has always stuck with me. One quote in particular has influenced the ways I’ve looked at finishing a work of my own:
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.