People who commit suicide are strong or weak?
Hi, I know i haven’t been active lately but my job and some issues took over me. But let’s talk on a topic I was thinking about today - " People who commit suicide are strong or weak?”
Let us start by thinking of someone suffering from cancer. He dies by multiple organ failure. Would you call that person weak?
Someone is suffering from heart disease. He gets a heart attack and dies. Would you consider him weak?
People have known to die from excruciating physical pain too. Would you call them weak?
Even considering that people who died from above were weak. Cancer patients are considered strong for their fighting spirit, knowing how tough chemotherapy is. Same is the case for a person who commits suicide. The people who commit suicide may do so for alot of
different reasons, but generally they are not cowards or lacking in character. Such people can get worn down over years of difficulties and despair, so they may at that point be weak in terms of going on, but no one is exempt from feeling the same way under similar circumstances.
Over 90 percent of the people who die by suicide have a mental illness at the time of their death and thus they are not thinking clearly, and they usually are experiencing excruciating emotional pain. They are people who cannot see other options and are fixated on only one preconceived solution. Some people suffer so much that its impossible for them to resist the thought of death or killing themselves.
As per http://suicide.org , clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses can cause people to do many things that they would never do if they were not ill, including die by suicide. So “weakness” has NOTHING to do with suicide.
Think about it this way - how hard is it to go against the tide of nature. It’s tough. So a person who considers suicide is so mentally disturbed that the person goes against the nature and against the natural extinct to live and put a hole in the head.
People say, it’s never the only option, that the therapists can help but many suicide cases have been to therapists. Even therapy could not save them. Can you imagine how much serious trouble they would have been?
In no way I am supporting suicide. I am against it and I highly recommend anyone who thinks he or she is suicidal to at least give their lives a shot and try therapy. But using an incorrect word like “weakness” perpetuates the strong stigma associated with suicide. And uttering such an ignorant word in association with suicide is extremely disrespectful and hurtful to suicide survivors and those who have departed.
Suicide is not an act of weakness; it is an act stemming from a serious mental illness, and the words we use in association with suicide should reflect that fact.