Why people Commit suicide
Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008
by David Slorski
Over the years the act of suicide has followed man. In ancient Rome it was thought to be a courageous act of love to your family if done to avoid disgrace or financial ruin. Then since that time the act has slowly declined to an act of pure cowardice. If we look in America during the first hours of the Great Depression we can see a mass amount of unorganized suicide based on financial ruin. The skyscrapers had lines for suicide jumpers at the time so we can obviously see that money plays a big role.
Now lets fast-forward to the mid 70's. James Town, 909 dead all from a mass organized suicide. What was behind all this? I expect that during this time most of the people involved felt a need for acceptance that other religions couldn't give. They were so desperate that they turned to a mad man that promised fellowship and comfort.
Now back to today. There are a growing number of suicides. The people who commit to this act have left chilling notes revealing a loneliness that they have. I am speculating that this loneliness is more of an illusion. I in no way mean to offend anyone who's world has been rocked by an occurrence like this but in this day in age we are so connected that the idea of loneliness has grown. We are becoming medicated in so many ways that the world's lines have started to blur. The Internet has connected us so that in an instant we can talk to others around the world but also in one second we can be lured into the trap set by sick manipulative minds.
And yet there is also the more philosophical view is that there is no such thing as true suicide. Suius comes from latin meaning self. And Cide means to kill. Philosophically no one kills themselves. They are killed by not only the people around them that emotionally stab, rape, excoriate and torture. Sometimes they are killed by their environment. Some people look too much into the singular events of society, which they should be able to do freely without consequence, and end up truly see the dark, perverted, blood, greedy, gluttonous deeps that we label "The Human Soul". If one is able and allowed to see that they can never be the same. It is impossible to actually stare into the darkness of the world and not change. Just like it is impossible to truly not change when one witnesses the death of another. It is impossible to not change when your own spirit withers away. Society forces us to death. Society forces thoughts macabre and dark upon us. Damn the society that kills not the victims.
So many have fallen into these traps and have been set in demise. I say that in this day and age the majority of suicides are intellectual murders disguised as suicide. Just a few months ago a family has finally stepped out into the light. They have definitive proof that their daughter's life was taken from cumulative discrimination and taunting by someone she trusted. I call out for us to stop this atrocity and comfort those attacked. But now Suzanne Pagella, this is an example of how society has turned so many blind eyes to those in trouble. Just listening can save so many lives.
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More commentsYou say you don't talk to friends about this. Even you cnnot say you are without friends. It may very well be that you receive little support from your family. Your motive should be to survive long enough to have a family of your own and to give them the support you never had. Create your own bubble of love. And if that doesn't come as quickly as you would like, find solace in knowing you are not alone. Don't feel like a freak who is the only person in the world who suffers alone. Given enough time and the courage to reach out, you will find love. I was very attracted to a young woman who was very timid and shy and she too felt alone. I did everything in my power to assure her of her great worth and I meant every word. Everything I said I meant. I wasn't feeding her a line of bull. In fact, she was the most beautiful and kind soul I have ever known. It's as if she was from another world. She leapt to her death off a famous bridge this December 12th at 3AM in the dark and cold waters of Lake Michigan. What a loss! What an unbearable loss and insufferable pain wrought from her decision. I will never be the same. I am dying inside because of her absence. I wonder if she knew how important she was to the people in her life? I'll bet she knows now. 50% divorce rate, suicide running rampant, you can feel the weeping and wailing all around the world. But there is light if you know nwhere to find it. God knows I'm looking for mine after that incredibly sad day. The finality of that transition is unbearable so please spare your friends such sadness. If you can't reach out to them and they turn you away, find some new friends. Yes, this world is about hard lessons. And if you drop out of this school, you'll only have to retake the test in the future.
how about these stupid banks and collection agents, that are bullying people, a friend of mine shot himself on xmas day cause all his loans got called in and he was out of money and he could't take the pressure anymore. This article is 100% rite I wish i could charge the bank with murderoh yes i understand your point , i think the collection agency are murder .gc service . or ic system call me terrorized everyday . for little money . i got heart attack . almost die , i understand your point .
something has to be done to this collection agency .now the calling me for ambulance fee ,
yes i understand your point well put stress on you .
greenfeld meir
is a person commited suicide goes to heaven?Most Religions belive you go to hell if you do. I however, don't accept that. That's why I converted to my own religion. I've been suicidal before. Its not fun, and the people who say people who are suisidal are "over reacting" or are "cowerds" have obviously never know the feeling of lonelyness and hoplessnessChristianity is the only monotheist I know that strictly looks at suicide as a sin. Throughout history it has really been based on culture and currently suicide is looked upon as a quick way out. It all really depends on your views of heaven and hell. Personally I feel the only heaven and hell we can be totally sure of is the one we make here on earth.
Your last sentence contradicts the preceeding part. People are not connected unless they can talk about their feelings, and be listened to by someone. The loneliest place in the world can be with people, if you are not connecting with them in a meaningful way.I agree completely, I am married and I feel so lonely. Before I married, I was living alone for 5 years and my siblings NEVER visited me.I lived in a family with 7 siblings and felt lonely too! so yes, people don't appreciate others unless they have something to offer, usually materialistic things: money, things etc...PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER EVER JUDGE THOSE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T THERE FOR THEM WHEN THEY NEEDED THEM! Also I agree with the comment saying that people should watch what they say! more than once, I wanted to commit suicide when people call me names, especially since MY DAD USED TO CALL ME THOSE NAMES! people are stupid, humans are stupid and NOT HUMANE. PETS ARE BETTER. I want to laugh when I hear that we are very humane! LOL LOL LOL We are racist, vendictive and stupid! and I repeat we are STU-PID! JEALOUS AND IGNORANT!
Bull$%&*@$%&. The suicide jumping is a myth for a start, Jamestown believers where led by a psychopath not a mad man and people who commit suicide are not always depressed and lonely. People can do it, and I know from a friend, while they are CROWDED by people- he was the most popular kid in school with no obvious issues, but he just didn't want to face the future pain of knowing he would inherit a chronic disease. He made a rational choice and accepted his fate. In japan and ancient Greece suicide was the noble option, as you touched on- they weren't lonely, they followed culture.Our culture, wrongly, hates suicide. We need to accept that some lives just aren't worth living, and never will be. Life isn't the highest priority, life is neutral, happiness is the ONLY thing that matters to ANYONE, whether they know it or not. Half of your happiness is genetic, and the rest comes from your environment, which you did not choose. Some people ate doomed to misery and need death as an escape. That is not my situation, but it IS scientific fact. Death is our most important right in life. To force someone to live an unhappy life us the greatest act of moral evil. It is much better to kill a happy person than force an unhappy person to live, yet to kill is our worst crime; to chain a suicidal person to life is not only legal but required.Future generations will look back on us banning suicide as comparable to the institutionalised torture of slavery and the Holocaust, and I'm not exaggerating. The aim of human life is happiness, unhappiness is what he hate the most, therefore depression (unhappiness) is the worst illness, and forcing a depressed person to live for agonising years is the greatest pain. Though I am in no way supporting the Holocaust, at least a gas chamber would bring death in a few minutes. Our 'civilised' society forces agony on people for decades, then resuscitated them even whenthey try to escape. We are all in The Prisoner, and our apparently much happier world is still Hell on Earth for a cursed section of society.Suicide is our most fundamental right. Having it makes every lived day a wonderful affirmation of our enjoyment of life. Only by accepting death as rational can we truly appreciate life.Life is the only outlet for happiness. No matter what creed or idea one may serve, the future is unknown. There is not a single totally hopeless situation in life and this theory is advocated for by many author's, one of which is a personal favorite of mine named Viktor Frankle who was a concentration camp survivor and phycologist that examined hopelessness. I believe the right to die with chronic ailments is upto the person and forcing someone to live through against their wishes is already known to be illegal yet still a gray area with old age. Jamestown wasn't strictly suicide. And the man that lead them ordered the death of a United States representative that visited the place on the request of the citizen's families. There are only a handful of survivors and they testify that half was suicide and half was a massacre brought on by a suicidal man bent on taking others with him. There is also good documentation of many investors committing suicide. Iconically was the jumping death of the Vice President of the Earl Radio Corporation. Yet I urge that suicide not be considered an option for the seeming helpless due to the fact that as human beings we are entitled not only to do good based on moral set down to us and/or discovered by us individually, but to live, to carry on not only our genetics but our race. We did not ask for this burden but life is unfair and we are entitled to this duty. Maybe not to reproduce but to live, to look for or make the rare commodity hope.Thank you. I suffer from Major depression and I have attempted suicide twice because i truly want to die. I don't feel sorry for myself nor am i seeking attention or pity from anyone. I have fought this for years and to be forced to live with people who don't have a clue what this feels like and to be told that i could actually be charged with my own attempted murder in INSANE!!! My only regret in my life is that my first attempt failed. That was 15 years ago and not a thing has changed. I have spent 15 years being absolutely miserable in spite of therapy, pills, shock treatments, friends, family, positive thinking, you name it. To me, life IS hell and I have earned a right to die. If i could be happy, I would give anything but it's not going to happen. I accept this but I don't accept the law that tells me I have to be alive.
My suicide will come because a. I am in my late 60's. My wife and I are eating hand to mouth. We have no money to travel, or to enjoy the simple things. b. My life insurance is term insurance and expires in 2 years. My hope is that my wife can use this money to live a better life than she has had in the last 6 years. She deserves it. We both became accustomed to a nice middle class life, but that's all gone.Florida, please do not look at suicide as an answer. Your wife will hurt, feel guilty, and be left alone. I would rather be homeless and live out of my car or under a bridge with my spouse than alone to deal with the things of life. If my spouse left me that way, I would be devastated. Money, we found personally, doesn't make a difference. Twice in our married lives we have essentially started over and the burden of it was much easier because it was shared. You would be telling your wife that all the good years never mattered to you, just that she have some money. And if the tax laws are repealed, she will have less than you imagine. Next, please consider Jesus. To some it sounds trite, but he is real and will comfort and help you. Maybe not to have plenty of money, but in other ways. Please find someone to talk to about that.
In conclusion. NEVER measure your value or self worth by the money you have, the house you have and the other possessions you may also have. We all come into this world with nothing and we shall all leave this world with nothing. We are merely caretakers of any earthly wealth and possessions in between birth and death. Rather, it seems to me, we should measure our TRUE wealth and value by what is in our hearts and minds. Also by family and friends. Life continually throws up obstacles to us. We can choose to be defeated by those or view them as opportunities to rise to even greater heights in self awareness and self fulfillment. Life is short and fleeting. Take every opportunity to increase TRUE wealth. Never put off gaining both the experiences and the knowledge that you desire. Never lose an opportunity to tell those you love that indeed, you do love them.
the police and government the pressure which put on the public , is source to many suicide and stress . so many law , so many red camera all around , so many law .impound car . and police in every corner , court which suspend driver licence . is source of pressure on the public ,its time to do something about this terrorism . high fine .even the offence is minor . the goverment and the police with court responsible to thousands death in year .greenfeld meir
My children chose materialistic gain over the love I had and everything I ever did/ sacrificed so they could have what I never had in life, one by one each of them has run off to their mother who was found an unfit mother through the court system, as my children grew, the restrictions I gave them in regards to learning life lessons, my ex wife gave permission to, she ended up marrying a wealthy man, who bought off each of my children one by one, my only son, of family of 4, 3 girls and a son who is the youngest blatantly told me to that if he chose his mother, he would have lived a better life, because she had money that I didn't, since she married a man with wealth. I bought her over from the Philippines, working in a brothel, to a wonderful american life, and the old story always was you can take the girl from the philippines, but you will never get the philippines out of the girl... as soon as she could beeter deal herself, usually while i was deployed overseas doing my military duty, she would do so, either by gambling my salary away, in notoroius philipino gambling games, or night clubbing and disappearing days on end, while leaving my children in the care of my aging sick mother, who for most of my childrens youth, was the only real mother they knew. I remarried myself, after she left, to a woman who had 3 children of her own, two of which stayed with me, the oldest had left home a couple years earlier. I did everything to make our mixed family work, I never treated any of my children different, and welcomed my new wifes kids as part of my family. One by one, though each of my kids left to enjoy the permissiveness and money that my ex wife married into. One of my wifes sons married and had a family, a daughter, and a second daughter on the way, in october, I am about broke, with almost all of my savings spent, my stepsons daughter, whom I treat like a granddaughter of my own, filled the void that I felt losing each of my children, and she is insecure, with severe mood swings, thinking that I want to take her child away from her, or I am too permissisve, or says things like all my daughter talks about is her grandpa, and it hurts her to think that her daughter loves someone more than her... I have a life insurance policy , VGLI, which pays in the event of suicide, for 400,000.00 dollars, I just dont want to be the pain that everyone seems to have in their lives as a result of becoming involved with me, I attempted suicide last night, but awoke this morning... I left the grandaughter everything I have, that is the financial security of my VGLI, I just have nothing left to give and just feel like at least my children will know one day that they mattered everything in the world to me, and my grandaughter who I know loves me, will be able to have a better life regardless of weather or not I am here because she is young enough to forget what happened to me, and will have the safety net of my VGLI, I don't know if there is anything anyone can say, or share but if anyone has suffered my pain I would just love to know what you did to overcome it...
I cant/wont quarrel with anyone that wants to suicide. However, you have no right to damage/hurt/destroy the loved ones and friends you leave behind! Yes when you suicide, you get rid of all your troubles-financial,depression or whatever....and transfer it to those you leave behind on this earth. Those left behind by the suicide of a loved one suffer for the rest of their lives, especially the children. Increased depression/suicide/alcoholism/prescription and other drug abuse/crime....on and on. SO DONT SUICIDE
THINK OF THOSE YOU LEAVE BEHIND
we[those left behind] do not want to be put into "the club no one wants to join"
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