I need to tell you that my grandma committed suicide which opened the door to many others in our family following her foot steps. Suicide is not a personal choice because suicide opens the door to others in your family to follow you. After my grandmother choose to suicide, my cousin tried three times only to become disabled from it, my husband committed suicide, my brother committed suicide, and then his brother-in-law.
I have spent years of my life trying to convince my children that they must respect life and not allow this to continue.
My God I can’t begin to tell you the Hell I have had to deal with because of Suicide.
Choose life so that others can also find the courage to live.
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omg i understand completely. when ,y father committed suicide it opened the window and then HIS father (my grandpa) committed suicide out of guilt!! (he knew my dad was gon kill himself but didnt believe he really would)
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I know this is an old post and its highly unlikely that you will read it…but I just had to comment in case somebody else reads this and has the same misconception. First I am sorry about the loss of your grandmother ….However, her suicide cannot be blamed for the reasons that others in your family did the same thing. They all had a choice and they chose to do what they felt was appropriate. Maybe it wasn’t rational but nonetheless it was still their choice. You cannot blame the actors of others on her. If she had killed somebody and then others in your family killed somebody…would it be fair to say it was her fault because she “opened the door to murder?” no it wouldn’t because she didn’t make their decision for them.
Suicide is indeed a personal choice. I know it affects others but it still remains a personal choice it isn’t in the rights of others to force someone to live who does not want to. Respecting life has nothing to do with suicide in my POV I respect life I just don’t want it. You can respect something without accepting it. Some people don’t accept religion but they don’t disrespect it …hell some people accept religion and frequently disrespect it. …Same with life …some people want life and they frequently disrespect it. The true problem lies where people guilt others into living to protect themselves from hurting. Ask anybody why suicide is wrong and why they want to prevent it….They will say “because it hurts others and people are selfish who do it because they aren’t thinking of others” …to call somebody selfish who doesn’t think about you is selfish in itself. …They never address the cause of the person wanting death…they only address the fact the person wants death.
guilt is the hardest thing in life to live with sometimes.
Sometimes, for some people suicide feels like a personal choice but it really occurs because of some dysfunctional network within a certain center of the brain. For some others it is a personal choice. It depends on the person. Maybe the pain is always making the choice?