Nicq MacDonald wrote,
> Hardly! Do you have any idea how hard it is to bring one's self to
commit
> suicide?
Yes, and the more cowardly the suicidal self, the more difficult it is to
commit the final act.
Cowardice keeps millions of depressed and despairing people alive.
Nevertheless, if you haven't considered suicide, you haven't matured much.
If you have never considered suicide, you don't understand the human
condition.
> I don't think that there is anyone harder to kill than one's own
> self.
In addition, there is no one harder to defeat than one's own self, which
has decided on suicide. Who will defend the self against the suicidal
self?
Try to remember, there are two sides to every suicide: The murderer and
the victim.
>From the murderer's side, suicide is cowardly, because the victim has no
defense.
>From the victim's side, suicide is heroic and tragic, because the whole
world ends for the victim.
Obviously this all occurs in one brain, but it is a schizophrenic, divided
brain that intends to kill itself out of despair. Suicide is always a
question of illness: Either the brain itself is ill, or it is living in
illness, for example cancer or social catastrophe.
Does suicide require courage from a person who is going to die a painful
death by cancer? Just take some pills and say bye-bye. Was it courage or
cowardice that prompted Hitler to kill himself? Much depends on time and
circumstance.
Stay hungry for nirvana,
--J. R.
3M TA3
"Marriage: There are less painful ways to commit suicide."
--Elron Hubble
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