y is suicide illegal ??
its like saying "hey man .. u've fucked up n thts probably y u want to end it all .. but god forbid , shud u fail .. v r alwez there .. to make u regret it .. not the act itself .. but tht it wasnt foolproof enuff ! "
dont get me wrong .. i m not the suicidal type .. (this n the last post aside :D) in fact i have nothing but the deepest of contempt for ne chap who thinks his own life is not worth living just coz of sum prob which is probably not worth thinking twice about ...my views on this are ,regrettably,rather dichotomous ..(wht if u r hopelessly bored with it all? wht if nothing seems worth the trouble? wht if the meaninglessness of it all seems too much to bear? i seem to find it more pardonable in this case than i do when it is just a form of escapism ... but then this too is escapism, albeit from mind-numbing boredom n stagnation!!! ) But overall , i like living .. (by my own standards of wht i call living ) ... i like to think therez lotz left for me to learn n see (n probably hate).... n ceasing to exist does seem a rather sad choice to make ....
But all tht is besides the point ... y is it by law illegal ??
A man doesn't get to choose whr he is born , into wht age , in wht circumstances , in which stage of human evolution ..
more often than not his life is a series of incidental happenings bound together by "fate" over which he has limited control , if any ... his life being entwined with a million others ... through layer after layer of mostly meaningless interactions ...
if there is any real power of choice he has ... it is to say "well , i've had enuff " .
so then y , in anybody's name , y take tht away from him ???
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Please relinquish any such contempt for us, for we mean you no harm :D
Hell, we didn't even get into the legality of the issue(thanks to you, now we'll try not to fail:D.....and provided we do, try not to get caught!). When the mind is at such a state, you can't possibly reason out the validity of the decision, or the lack of it, with sheer logic, or even abstrusively elusive concepts like hope, and adjectives like escapist are utterly relative, especially in such cases.
True ...
Contempt is probably too strong a word ... and Escapism probably too judgemental a stand for my own comfort ...
True ...
Ending it all takes a hell lot of courage ... and with the most basic of man's instincts against it ,it must take a lot to push one over ...
But having lost one very special person the same way ... i cant help but view it from the other side ... the anguish , the pain , the bewilderment of those left behind ... in retrospect, no problem seems worth it .
So no offense to all of you out there ... ( after all i am still fighting for ur right to do it !:D ) ... but just a quiet hope ... it takes courage to end it ... jst a lil more than that to fight back ...
Well, actually, courage doesn't even come into the picture. It's not a question of courage at all, or the lack of it for that matter. Trust me. I know:)....its like a paradox....your analysis becomes wrong the moment you put your mind into it, incorporating your views and your frame of reference.
You got to get into the mind of the person commiting the act, which, unfortunately, isn't possible, yet.
You'll always percieve it from the point of view of the ones left behind. A horrendous fix I must say.
Horrendous for sure ...
A pity too... tht with this one thing i cant seem to get arnd to viewing things from the other side ...
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