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Thought this was interesting.

“Brother [Wilford] Woodruff spoke… He refered [sic] to a saying of Joseph Smith which he heard him utter (like this) That if the People knew what was behind the vail, they would try by every means to commit suicide that they might get there, but the Lord in his wisdom had implanted the fear of death in every person that they might cling to life and thus accomplish the designs of their creator.”

- Diary of Charles Lowell Walked, ed. By A. Karl Larson and Katherine M. Larson [Logan, Ut.: Utah State University Press, 1980] vol. 1, pp. 465-466.