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RE: There Is Nothing Wrong With Suicide

in #suicide7 years ago

This is an interesting perspective, but I wholeheartedly disagree with you for two reasons. You say that we have the right to take our own lives because we are Gods. To be a God doesn't simply begin and end with taking one's own life. To be a God means to have infinite power, to give life and to cause death. If you have created yourself, and given yourself the body you live in and sustain it, then you can take your own life. But since you had no say in coming into this world, nor choose to which country, ethnicity or family you were born into, then it's futile to claim you are a God. Your body functions without your help, your heat beats without your interference or permission day in and day out. You are weak (and as are we all) and if you are hanging from the edge of a cliff (by accident) you do not call yourself, but call out and say 'God help me.' You and I both know you are not calling yourself at that moment, but THE God. We are not Gods because we do not have any authority, but we have free will. And some use that free will to end their own lives. I will say human beings can call themselves Gods (although that will never happen) the day they can make the sun rise from its opposite direction, turn day into night, cause rain, create oceans, mountains, the heavens and everything in between.

The second point you mentioned that I also disagree with is you said that a person takes their own life to relief their pain. But I want to know who has been to the other side and can confirm that suicide is the end of pain? What if it was the beginning of worse pain?

Life is sacred and every breath is a blessing. And I agree with you, it's easy to say that when one's life has no real struggles or deep tragedies. However, this does not in any way mean that hopelessness is something that should be praised or encouraged. Disappointments and tragedies are finite, but hope is infinite and this is what billions of people live on, even when they don't know where their next meal is coming from.