About Suicide

I had a recent chat with my friend about suicide and it made me think about the reasons, and people's reactions.

First of all, suicide, like many other problems, is something you need to talk about openly. I know most people like to talk about it only in closed doors and in hushed voices, but if we want to deal with this problem we need to speak openly about it.

So about the question of suicide. First of all people react to it in a certain way because they don't really know what it's about. They say you're a coward or that you're selfish to want to end your life (someone actually said that to me: that suicidal people are selfish people) but they're wrong. They say "why would you want to leave this perfect world?" and the answer is "this world is FAR from perfect." 

That's the thing. If you've lived though something horrible you would want it to stop, wouldn't you? If you've lived through abuse, bullying and all that kind of stuff, you would want that to end, right? If someone is hurting you, you would want them to stop. But since you can't make people stop, you have to do it.

Why would you want to stop someone from killing themselves? If life is so unbearable it would be, on the contrary, horrible to force them to live a life they hate. Would YOU like someone forcing you to do something you absolutely hate?

The question isn't about making the person stop from killing themselves, the question is about making life bearable and worth living. 

Instead of telling them that they are wrong to kill themselves, you should tell them that they are RIGHT to want to get away from this scandalous situation they are in AND show them how they can do it in a way that isn't killing themselves.

Instead of forcing people to live a life they hate, you should show them that they have a place in this world.

Instead of just telling people "life is worth living", you should PROVE to them that life is worth living, and show them HOW to get ride of the abusive and bullying situation they are in. 

If you were being abused and people didn't believe you or didn't care OF COURSE you would want to end it all. 

BUT, on the other hand, if you are being abused and there are people there to show you HOW to get ride of this horrible situation THEN they will want to continue living (because they will know that they will be able to get ride of their horrible situation).

The people at fault AREN'T the ones who want to commit suicide. (They shouldn't be blamed!)
The people at fault are those who HURT them! 

So if you want to get ride of suicide, then get ride of the problems first!

It's really that simple.
But people don't like simplicity, they prefer to make everything more complicated so as to confuse us.