Sunday 18/12/05

I have been reading an interesting article on suicide, but it got me thinking about the bigger picture. Is there ever a "normal" way to live or (die for that matter).Why does someone have to exist on, in order to satisfy someone else's moral code. The line that stood out for me was " suicide is a crime of forgetfulness, which leaves heartaches which last a lifetime". True, but I just cannot even include the word "selfish" (or "crime") in the same sentence as suicide, even if there is some shock value to it.

Do you not think the person has not thought at length about who and what they were leaving behind, before concluding that death was the better option. There is some frightening statistic in Ireland, that places suicide as the no 1 killer of people between 15-24 with males 4 times more likely to go down that road than females. As time goes on, I find myself becoming more blase about issues concerning life and death. Death is as natural as life, they are the two ends of this big conveyor belt we call existence. When I hear that someone has died, no matter how tragic the circumstance, it has less and less of an impact.Of course, I'm not that cynical that I can't empathize with them, but they are gone and there is no turning the clock back! Don't delude yourself into thinking that you will be together again, at some later date. Its not going to happen!

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