by Dee Devers

Created on: November 14, 2008   Last Updated: December 30, 2008

Suicide is really not a "right". You were given life as a gift to see what you can make of yourself. To see how you can help others and to serve God. Today's life is so full of emotional distress and mental illness. It is saddening to say the least . Anyone who chooses to end his or her life feels like that things are so bad there is no use to carry on. They have hit rock bottom. They are not who they want to be or who their loved ones expected them to be. People who commit suicide are not in the right frame of mind. They have been, if only for a moment, removed from society's everyday expectations and commitments. They feel like if they end it everyone will be better off. It is their body, but not their life to take.

You have family, friends and obligations to live up to. Some will say if I just take this bottle of pills the suffering is over. If I just pick up that gun the suffering is over. If I just never wake up again it will be over. None of these statements are true. Some people try to commit suicide and wake up to find they have survived. They awake in a hospital bed with a tube shoved down their throat and their wrists strapped down so as not to hurt themselves. All "personal rights" taken away and decisions being made for them for the unforeseeable future.They are never to be looked at as the same again!

If you are successful at taking your own life everything is still there.You have removed yourself. All of the horrible challenges you chose to leave and your family that ask "why, what could I have done"? Suicide is not a personal right. It is not the answer. It is a terrible legacy to leave to your friends and family. It is the cowardly way out. It is a moment of pain inflicted and a lifetime of hopes, dreams and lives of others changed forever. It is a permanent solution to a temporary situation. You did not come to this world by your will. You should not leave at your will. No one ever said it would be easy and most of us find it is not. Our lives have meaning and purpose and it is not always visible to us.

Many would say, it is my body I can do with it as I want. Instead of giving up choose your "personal right" of talking to a friend and seeking professional help. Things will get better, it takes time, courage and sacrifice. God gave you this body and asked you to do his work. Make him proud. Work with what you have. Do not kill your outer person only to find eternal suffering of the soul. Live, survive, move on. You will be glad that moment of insanity was just that a moment that has lingered away.

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