Thoughts on suicide?

Since Jiah Khan's suicide has sent a wave of shock across the Industry and also on IF, a range of different opinions on suicide have come forth. Some think that suicide is a cowardly act and that she simply didn't have the courage to deal with life's problems. Others think that because she was going through chronic depression, she felt suffocated within herself and couldn't bear to stay alive. 

As if inflicting pain, even on the smallest scale, is easy for most people. How many people have to mentally prepare themselves before ripping off a bandaid, or crib about paper cuts?

The worst part of this World is there is a lot of fear. The amount of love in this World is low. I learn this hard fact because even in families siblings quarrel with each other, parents ridicule their children etc. Does anyone realize how much mental pain these things can cause? And most importantly why is someone cruel to another person? That is because he/she desperately is seeking love. And no one in the World is such that he/she doesn't deserve love. We know men and women commit suicide because of the rejection they have to endure from girlfriends or boyfriends. Why do they do so? Because they find it difficult to endure the pain of rejection. Madame Curie and JKRowling did contemplate suicide atleast on one occasion. Where are they now? I do admit the rejection is really painful. But one thing I also learn is I don't deserve to be rejected and I can tenderly accept myself. And the person who rejected me did that because she could not understand my love. She is just like the scorpion who stung the saint who tried to rescue  the creature. What did the saint tell about that scorpion? He told that is all the understanding capability of the scorpion and the scorpion does that because he believes that is the only way he could save himself. That is the case of the rejecting b/fs or g/fs.. They believe they would be in danger if they commit. How many people accept this point? If the saint says, the scorpion has no right to sting him, then the saint would be in pain. And if a person says being rejected in love means something is wrong with him/her, he/she will find it difficult to get out of that rut and if that person feels the pain is too much that person commits suicide.

What makes me angry is the insensitivity of people. Not just people on IF or other social media websites but in reputed newspapers. I was reading the tribune today where an opinion piece journalist wrote Jiah should have lived for those who loved her citing the antecedotal evidence of his friend with brain tumour. Have these so called scholars ever picked up a book? Read about clinical depression? Heard of the numerous suicide hotlines, NGOs, etc. who work their butts off trying to help people. The world acknowledges this as a disease because it is. To dismiss suicide as an act of cowardice is cowardice in itself. I know people who would shit in their pants than hear a mental illness diagnosis. HIV is not considered as much a death sentence (thank God for medicine) as mental illness.

Frankly the pain of losing someone close is very hard to bear; especially for the parents.

I was shocked beyond anything when I heard the news of Jiah Khan's suicide. I'm not particularly fond of my favorite actress, let alone a hardly-seen one like her. But suicides always take you by surprise, I daresay. Nobody could possibly have seen a celebrity's suicide coming yet we must all have got our on two cents on how the institutions goes about.

There have been many philosophical arguments about Jiah Khan's suicide that contend that suicide is immoral and unethical. One popular argument is that many of the reasons for committing suicide like depression, economic hardship are transitory and can be ameliorated by therapy and through making changes to some aspects of one's life. However, the argument against this is that while emotional pain may seem transitory to most people, and in many cases it is, in other cases it may be extremely difficult or even impossible to resolve even through counseling or lifestyle change, depending upon the severity of the affliction and the person's ability to cope with their pain.

 

 

If the medication and therapy are not doing any good and you are miserable and do not wish to live anymore, it is your life to take, nobody gets to call you a coward for easing the pain and deprssion you are going through, which none of them have even ounce of experienced. Contrary to cowradly, I say it's pretty a  kinda heroic act cause it takes guts to end one's own life. 😳

 

 

I find it amazing that some people think it's 'selfish' for a person to kill herself or himself because someone else might be upset by it, yet do not think it's selfish to expect someone else to live with, what is to that person, unbearable pain and suffocation. 😆

As this topic is 'thoughts on suicide', I like to say certain things. One thing I know is I have no right to use words like cowardly, immoral, unethical, selfish etc. about any other human being because my own knowledge is limited and I have no right to judge others.

More points on suicide. Edited by maha2us - 10 years ago