by Jennifer Boblink

Created on: February 22, 2011   Last Updated: March 03, 2011

 A girl dies with a note on her night stand and it’s labeled a suicide. Questions are swirling around like a tornado on why she would do something like that. It wasn’t like her she wasn’t upset…or at least didn’t seem to be. While those questions are spinning the real question would be, was it justified - or any suicide in that matter justified? Do people actually have a justifiable reason to commit suicide?

Now let’s ponder about that thought is taking someone else’s life justified? For the most time it isn’t, would taking your own life be the same concept. Honestly you’re killing yourself, a living human being. The taking of a life is something people frown upon all the time. So to look at suicide in that manner when someone ends their own life it’s also frowned upon. Not many people are in the background cheering like they would at a football game.

                What does killing yourself accomplish? Maybe a family torn apart, leaving people question what happened, or the chance to never see your family grow. It’s sometimes the only option that people think they have, though it’s their only option. Or so they think. There are mental health facilities or suicide hotlines that will listen to someone when they have a problem. To leave things unaccomplished is like reading a book with pages torn out. These pages though aren’t replaceable—a human life isn’t replaceable.

 One final thought this isn’t what we were sent here on earth to do. If it was there’d be some religious text somewhere that says suicide is okay and justified. Think about it if we were meant to kill ourselves people would have been trying to do it the second they came out of the womb. Life has so much more meaning then ending it over something that happened. Anyone in their right mind couldn’t justify the fact that there is no religious text that says it’s okay to kill yourself.

So in hindsight, suicide is never justified. There’s more to live for, it doesn’t accomplish anything and if we were meant to do something like this we would have been told. The logic behind most of the swirling questions on if the girl who left the letter on the night stand is that it wasn’t justified. It never was and should never be justified.

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