Suicide

This world can sometimes be hard to live in, and occasionally, the pain becomes so acute and sources of relief so rare, that one may contemplate ending it all.

If you're having such a thought, don't feel that you're weak or foolish. There is nothing wrong or unusual about the way you feel. Things must be going pretty badly if you're contemplating suicide. But if death has become an option for you, then things can't get any worse. From here, you can rise if you want to.

No one has ever solved anything by choosing death. In fact, it's the ones who are faced with the very real prospect of death who discover how valuable and rich life can be.

In Stephen Daldry's film "The Hours", actress Julianne Moore plays Laura Brown, a character whose fa?e of a loving, dutiful housewife belies an emotional and romantic emptiness that threatens to engulf her. Unable to live the life she truly wants to live, she is finally driven to the thought of suicide, but decides against it at the eleventh hour.

Strangely enough, the option of death gave her the strength to continue living. When she realised that she could always take her life if it got unbearable, suddenly, her life didn't seem so hard. The world of infinite opportunities opened up to her. Fear of life and social expectations no longer gripped her, and she subsequently went on to live the life she always wanted.

In Paulo Coelho's book "Veronika Decides to Die", the protaganist is brought back from the brink of death after she takes a near-fatal dose of sleeping pills. However, the doctor tells her that as a consequence of her action, her heart has been so weakened that it could collapse in a matter of weeks. Faced with the possibility of death like the character of Laura in "The Hours", Veronika experiences a similar epiphany - that death is always possible, for everyone, young or old, happy or depressed. Death can come to you unexpectedly or you can invite it; either way, it makes life all the more precious and the world all the more beautiful and promising.

Suicide is a hasty catapult into the unknown. What you couldn't find here, you can be sure you won't find in death. Life however gives you the opportunity to live it in any way you like. The pain may be unbearable now, but it will not last. Death comes to us all; the time and place though, is not for us to determine. Till then, choose Life - seize the opportunities that only Life can bring.

source: Eugene Loh, A Slice of Life, 938LIVE, a station of MediaCorp Radio

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不知道馆主有没有和大家分享过，认真来讲，选择自杀的人虽然很傻，但是他们所拿出的勇气是超出想象的，因为要自杀，并不会是偶然的“一时冲动”；相反的，一个要自杀的人多数是经过了“精心策划”的。说句真心话，很多人都害怕面对很多事，但是我们更怕面对死亡、死讯。如果你经常以自杀为借口来威胁着身边的人，馆主希望我们都好好地想想这样的行为对吗？有没有想过如果有一天，你发生了什么意外，大家都会觉得难过、更会觉得自责，因为他们以为自己太不关心你了，忽略了你之前说要自杀的举动，所以良心需要负责？

自杀的人，真的太自私了。要好好地珍惜生命好吗？

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