by Ashley Lemus

Created on: March 15, 2009

Is suicide something that can be justified? I have heard this argument a few times before. Well, in the sense that the question is being asked here, no, it cannot be justified. Killing yourself in the name of fear, depression, or pain is never the answer. I, personally, think that is a stain against your soul. The action of killing yourself in this case is disrespectful toward a body that was a gift to you. More than that, if you have your life that much, if you are that afraid of what someone can do to you, then there is one other thing you can do besides killing yourself to make it all end.

Leave. Gather up what you can, if you can gather anything at all that is, and just plain leave. Go to someone you trust, go to the police, but do not go to ending your life. Things hurt, life hurts, and I am sure there are those out there who feel that it hurts enough to end it, but that is not the right answer.

Killing yourself simply gives the person or persons who hurt you even more power. It means they won. And if a person wants that sort of thing to end, if they want to really feel something other than pain and suffering, then they should do the one thing that would really stick it to the people that hurt them; survive. They should not harm themselves, but find strength. They should know they are not the first to suffer, and they will not be the last.

I do not think suicide is ever the answer. I have known plenty of victims, a few of them who have wanted to end their lives, and somehow with the help of great friends and others who loved them, they have come to rise above such desires. I think there is something better than suicide. In fact, I know there is something better.

It is a long and hard road, it is most certainly not the easier road of death, but it is a road much more worthy to take. There is a saying that things worth doing are hard. Living is hard, and it is worth doing. Dying is easy, and a poor substitute for what a person could be in life if they can just drag themselves up. And anyone can drag themselves up.

Is suicide ever justified? In the case of abuse and suffering, no. If someone were to say to me; Kill yourself or we'll blow up a school, then I might do it. Death for thousands of others is the only acception I can think of. But in nine cases out of ten, I will firmly stand my ground and say that suicide is not, and will never be, the answer.

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