On Suicide

I was thinking over the past few weeks that it is quite pathetic that any civilized society should make the act of suicide of illegal. Does it not stand to reason that if a man should have only one thing to have complete control over, that it be his very existence? His own life?

It amazes me the way that many Western cultures view the act of suicide. Rather, I should have said that it amazes me the way that Judeo-Christian based societies view the act of suicide. It is lowered to the level of a petty crime, something that only a madman is capable of, something that is to be viewed as wrong. Could a more ridiculous claim be made then this? To attempt to deny a man the right to his own person! To his own life!

This is not the result of disorganized thinking by delusional madmen and irrational sociopaths. This decision can be reached by a very rational line of thought, and it a quite simple one at that: When a man ceases to see value in life, ceases to see why he should bother to fight on, he will choose to end his life. And yet people bastardize this act! As if their own fate wasn't going to be the exact same. Instead of sticking around to see the entire show, a man may choose to skip right to the end. For in the end, nothing matters.

These religious crusaders with their superior intellects hurl the Bible at those who have considered, and carried through, a suicide. Members of the clergy, the most vile, idiotic, and ignorant of all men! If you wish to speak with the most base and loathsome variety of man, you need not venture to a prison, just converse with a priest! One will not find a single passage in the Bible regarding the prohibition of suicide . . . so where do these men, these creatures, get off pontificating about such matters? They are but scoundrels.

The Church aside, there is the legal matters one must deal with. In modern American society it is considered a crime for one to make the decision not to exist. One must then proclaim that such a law is of the most asinine nature! For what can frighten a man that does not fear even death!

It may generally be found that the when the pain and suffering of life outweigh the fears and terrors of death, a man may very well put an end to his life. And one may go so far as to say that perhaps each and every one of us may have already put an end to our lives if it was a guarantee. That is to say, if suicide was guaranteed stoppage to existence. Great mental suffering makes one immune to bodily pain. Bodily pain can usually be cured; great mental suffering in terminal. The fear of the pain one might endure during their annihilation is mitigated by the intense mental suffering that one is forced to continually endure.

This can also be used as an argument against God. Many will have you believe that God is all-knowing and all-powerful. That is a contradiction and proved rather easily. If God willed himself to no longer exist, it could not be. For even a creature as base as man can perform such an act.

Suicide may be perceived as the greatest question of nature, and that question is man asking for an answer. Rather, he is attempting to force an answer from nature. In a way, the act of taking your own life is asking "what is existence, and what change in my existence will death produce." Perhaps a fool hearty enterprise when you consider that in the process one will destroy the very consciousness that allows him an answer.

"Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows, and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man."