It is not just the habit of poets rigsy. Suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death in the United States. A person dies by suicide about every 16 minutes in the United States. An attempt is estimated to be made once every minute. Though people who have the highest risk of suicide are white men, women and teens report more suicide attempts. This comparison speaks volumes concerning the seriousness of suicide. Attempting suicide is just as much a problem as successful attempts.
I've had many thoughts on suicide. Here is some rehashing. I truly hope it is not within your immediate set of contemplations but simply a melancholy drift, a dissipating cloud. Suicide is always the ultimate exit strategy unless someone is confined in a prison or mental institution and strict measures are taken to disallow the act. Thoughts of suicide at any age for any reason can return at any time when the ugly side of life rears it's head. If you thought about it when you were 8 you will think about it when you are 38, 58 or 88. To terminate one's existence is entirely based on the individual's perception of life at the time of suicidal contemplation. To be more precise, when all value in life has reached the point of nil, the life itself becomes meaningless. When no amount of wealth or enlightenment offers any degree of worth to the individual there is little desire to exist as the question arises, "what is there to live for?". Surely there are those who would offer alternative avenues to the suicidal individual but the alternatives may only hold value to those individuals offering the alternatives. Each individual lives within the self consciousness of the individual's self and so no one can transfer life values to that person. This is the dilemma that we face when trying to understand why someone would want to commit suicide as we cannot share the thought patterns of the individual prior to the suicide and can no longer query the individual in the post suicidal state. This is of course aside from heroic or religious based suicides and detailed explanations left by the individual prior to suicide. Though we all have the freedom (perhaps not the nerve) to commit suicide, most choose life instead and find value in it's most simple form. Truly the experience of just being alive is enough for some to view it as being the main value in living. Some view suffering as part of the living experience and therefore find no cause to terminate life. Some may insist that suicide is wrong and unjust according to various standards, however, I find that aspect to be centered upon social/religious obligations. Considering that life remains enigmatic and has yet to offer any proofs as to it's meaning or purpose, the act of suicide is solely carried out according to the individual's discretion. Perhaps we grasp at this life for it's mere existence and the experience of the existence, as in a blissful dream from which we do not want to leave. We know the dream is occurring in our sleep state and when we awake our mind will return to our conscious world but we still in some instances wish we didn't wake up. This excludes nightmares or disturbing dreams of course. The ramifications of the suicidal act, I think, are not something that the suicidal weighs heavily during the moment of truth. The suicidal at some point must eliminate all other aspects of life surrounding individuality. Concern for others might be a consideration but the ultimate focus becomes the self in the end. The suffering becomes so internalized and undetectable but never the less, it festers within until it is no longer containable. The people surrounding the individual are usually caught in a daze of shock and dismay without any clues. I don't always look at suicide as the failure of the suicidal as much as I see it as a failure of society to address the issues that lead to suicide and the stigma and repercussions of the act itself. We must re-examine the values of humanity before we can alleviate the problems of depression and suicide, alcohol and drug abuse. The complexities are overwhelming. One thing for sure is, Life is for Living! On Jun 20, 6:56 am, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > A habit of poets. A boost to book sales and theories. Women might as > well throw themselves over the cliff after 30. The world belongs to > men. Children are sandbags to a woman's dream. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
