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)