Why Suicide?
Ever since my knowledge span extended, I learnt that suicide
is a punishable crime. But the question
is why? One of the most apt answer is because one is not entitled to give up
life on his own as it is, the greatest gift of God. But I feel why not.
Everyone is free to be what one wants, choose what he likes, so why not choose
death. Why inflict a penalty for one’s choice – the biggest one of all - to
live or to die.
But alas a contrary
scene prevails. People become moral
police and hurl abuses to those who have attempted suicide (both to successful
and failed ones) calling them cowards. For failed ones the plight is continued
in the form of traumatizing cops with incessant queries probing into the
drastic step. And neighbours here play a key role; giving lucid comments on the
life of the convict. The society decries the person’s malicious attempt and
shuns their public cooperation thereafter. Thus for the poor one life becomes
tougher than it already was. It is like
one stands infront of the sea shore of vast gloominess. What others fail to see
or maybe overlook is the reason behind such contemplated action of ending one’s
life.
For
many of us, while we live we fail to seek that meaning for a purposeful life.
Our goals seem to engulf our minds but we cannot picture the right route to
achieve those. At those moments of
vacillation, support , care and guidance of our loved ones are those that we
crave for the most. And when we find our life devoid of all such feelings , the
value of our life degrades immediately and constanly opens door to downfall.
And that can’t be a small reason to end everything.
The
society we live in is the biggest critic of our lives. We begin to judge
ourselves on the basis of the comments we get. Few strong ones stand ahead of those, others succumb to the fatal
mockery. Life issues such as unemployment, divorce, marital violence and
turbulence, property disputes, failure in exams, character, love affairs, black
money, choices and decisions…nothing seem to escape the eagle-eye vigil of the
society. All these pave their way
through the scanned eyes of the society who rate us on a scale of 10 where
somehow failing to reach an average, we are termed with
titles like – duffer, crooked, insane, loafer, characterless and more so.
Finally it marks the end of the hapless soul who gulps down everything so
deep that he loses strength and courage to stand for his own life. And thus
putting a quick and abrupt end…
Well,
when we (the society we all are a part of) donot leave any space for others to
breathe in, aren’t we wrong in expecting them to survive. Hence it is now
customary to change our outlook on everything-on life and on suicide.
Happy living…
(PS:This article is an outcome
of several newspaper articles read daily)
