The cases of teenager』s suicide could be heard
regularly in the recent news. According to the news reports, most of the
suicides kill themselves to escape the pressure in their lives.
However, it seems to me that this is an unforgivable guilt committed by
the weakling who failed to accept the challenge in his/her life.
Intentionally or unwillingly, the act of suicide would harm oneself as
well as others
It is unlikely that there is a suicide in which no
one is harmed. G.K.Chesterton, a writer in Holland once wrote, 「The man
who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men;
as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.」 Indeed, the man who
harms himself harms others successfully. And it is very unfair for the
other men who are harmed are mostly innocent.
In the case of suicides, the most injured victim
would be the parents who love their children very much. When a suicide
is committed, the parents would not only suffer the major emotional
upset of losing a child, but also feel great remorse that they have
failed to help their child when he/she was in need. What』s worse, these
feelings would never end if the suicide ends in death, since the person
who could redeem them has died.
Then, the suicide』s sibling and friends would be the
other victims. They might feel upset at losing a companion on the
journey through life. And this news might be a terrible shock to them,
and might have a profound effect on their lives—the suicide has proved
to them that life could be given up easily. Even a passer-by would get
hurt when he/she becomes unwittingly involved in the suicide』s
self-destructive acts. I have heard of a case like this: a person
discovered his roommate』s body hanging in their room when he came back
from school—this has caused him to have recurrent nightmares, and he
didn』t dare to sleep alone for ten years!
Perhaps most of the men who commit suicide might
claim that they were forced to do so—they live under strong pressure,
they are extremely unhappy, etc.—their life is like a faulty performance
and could only be erased through a suicide. However, lives are filled
with possibilities and choices. Everything would be all right if you
persist spite of the difficulties—for a day, two days or three days. Of
course, it is easier to give up than to persist. When giving up, we are
not only giving up what we intend to give up, but also relieving the
suffering that we are enduring. Nevertheless, it is the persistence of
many great men in their lives that makes life all the more beautiful.