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Part of me as a person wants to say, "No, suicide is not an individual's right." George Eastman, the founder of Kodak and inventor of roll film, left his suicide note saying, "My work is done. Why wait?" There are plenty of reasons why you shouldn't leave this world, George! However, the mind is often a more troubling place than this world, which can say a lot about how troubling the mind can be. The mind can torment one's daily life with horrible thoughts, process perceived actions as ritualistic messages, and, in general, make everyday life seem scary. People may laugh at that. Scary? One's thoughts?

Those people who do not see how the mind can be scary can not know the power the mind has over the body. They do not know how helpless a body can be left when psychosomatic symptoms plague the body's physical functions. They do not know the horrible experience of facing daily panic attacks caused by a thought that, although irrational to the one having the thought, is processed as true and evokes a horrible response both physically and mentally. These people who do not understand the power of the mind will say it is wrong to commit suicide. They will tell you to relax and stop taking life so seriously. I personally have been given professional advice to "try taking a warm shower" or another of my favorites was "try sipping some hot cocoa or tea." No joke. That was the advice given to me by professionally trained mental health workers. These professionals as well as the common person will see your situation as simply an undisciplined frame of mind. One simply needs to get their head out of the sand and into a more positive outlook.

So here I sit on a topic on which I am ambivalent. I cannot take my own life as I have given it value for the time. I have a mother who needs me more than I need to die. I have family who would be crushed. Finally, I still have a shred of hope that I am still of value to the greater society. Outside of that, only faith that there is hope keeps me tied to this world. When one loses faith and hope, then there is no point to living. Sometimes we need to live blindly in faith in search for hope that is not present. However, all suicides are usually long, hard fought journeys with no glimpses of hope and know faith that hope will ever shine its light upon one's face again. But there is an even more basic answer to the question, "Is suicide a personal choice?" "Is it is a personal right?"

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