DesiPundit

A personal incident moves Cynic to ruminate on suicides. What causes people to take their own lives, what are their last thoughts, what about the people left behind? Is suicide the greatest act of cowardice, or of courage?

Is it the ultimate exhibitionist act of a self centred person? A part of me says that people who do take away their lives have to be necessarily, absolutely, selfish since they don’t think about the trauma they cause on those left behind. I had met a gentleman whose daughter had just committed suicide a few months before I met him ( for the most INANE reason imaginable) He was going through the motions of being alive – In reality, he looked completely wrung out, as if his whole life force had been drained out of him.