by Faron

Created on: October 25, 2008

The human spirit, the will to live and thrive, seems to be the greatest strength ever given to man. Through the years hundreds of thousands of people have been wrongfully condemned and push towards death but, fought back and in the over all turn out survived. Take the Holocaust, Slavery, and even the demise of the Indian culture for instance. They went through more horrific pain and brutality then anyone in the US these days could fathom. Yet, despite the many losses of life the people survived through sheer determination and the basic animal instinct to live.

The truth is now a days we have teenagers that think because they're parents got a divorce, they're girl/boy friend broke up with them, or they got kicked of the Basketball teem that they have reason to eat a bullet or a handful of pills. This however, is not suffering of any real sort this is what our media friendly environment has show boated to be true pain.

Parents need to start being more aware of what they're children are going through. They need to sit down together every now and again and eat a decent meal with they're kids and ask them about their day. We shouldn't push our kids so hard into believing that if they fail at something that they are a failure. Our society in a whole needs to become more open to receiving and seeking out help and noticing the warning signs. Parents need to pay more attention at home and less time working, fighting, or trying to be their child's friend and be they're parents. That is after all why we are put here, to guide our children until they become adults and are ready to be on they're own.

It is strange but, I bet that if you could take even half of the people that have committed suicide and put them in a real life or death situation that they would fight to the very end to survive. Funny isn't it, even someone who would willingly blow they're head off would fight for their very life if someone else was trying to kill them. This is the human spirit that lives with in all of us. We are not meant to know when we are going to die. That is why we can die in so many different ways. Some say the human spirit is fragile but, I say it is our greatest strength.

True suicide is probably never justified but, they're have been times when I myself have thought, "I would kill myself if it were me". For instance I have just recently had my first child and one day I was just sitting there and all these horrible thoughts came into my mind. Like what if someone broke into my home

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