Suicide
Posted by barabbas9 on January 15, 2011
It’s a bad thing. Don’t do it.
One of my nephews felt he couldn’t go on with the hardships of life this morning and decided the best medication for it was a lead tablet. It was effective. It ended his pain and misery in a millisecond, but then that pain and misery spread from him to an unknown number of others like a rampant virus.
It spread first to his mother and aunt the moment they found his body. Then it spread by phone to his other aunts and uncles, cousins, nephews, brothers and even his son. The malady crossed state lines and international borders like a cold breeze. Nothing could stop it or prevent it from spreading. In less than a day his entire family had been left in shambles, struck numb by the news.
Suicide is a cold hearted, selfish bastard that takes everything you have and much of that which those close to you have. It cannot be healed or put into remission, and it can’t be undone. It’s the most brutal way to die and it’s the most brutal way to damage those that love you because, although they may get better, they will never, ever fully recover.
If you love anyone, anyone at all, don’t pass your own pain and misery on to them. Let them go through it with you. Let them be there for you. Let them love you and it will get better. It can’t get any worse, unless you decide to end your life. Then your pain is spread to others.
Like a rampant virus…
