Suicidal VS Suicide(!)

There is a wide-spread belief in the society (I don’t know how true or erroneous such a belief is) that those who talk about suicide will rarely ‘pull the trigger’, so to speak.

As one of my closest friends once told me: she said whenever she hears a friend talking about suicide, she is confident that he/she will never do it. She said those who really want to part with life. will just go and do it without a word to anyone else.

Judging from my own experience, however, I think she is wrong. I felt suicidal for the most part of my life. And I talked about it with my closest friends. That doesn’t mean, however, that my suicidal intentions aren’t serious. Sometimes you just want to, sort of, “condition” people (especially those who matter to you), that they shouldn’t be surprised/shocked when one day they wake up and you’re not part of the humanity any longer.

I, personally, believe such an approach is best, as, after all, we don’t live on an uninhabited island all alone. We are all intertwined, and whether we want it or not, we’ve got other human beings around us who may care about us.

And although they can’t possibly bring an end to our problems, which make us suicidal, they can, at least, be gently conditioned to an idea that one day the world will be revolving without us.

On the other hand, we might be misinterpreting what’s “best” for those around us. Remember….there was a poll recently, where people were asked would you like to know the date of your death, if, by some chance, there were a *genuine* fortune-teller, who could *really* tell the dates.
I think most of the people in the poll answered ‘no’. In other words, the majority of the population like to live in a world with an element of surprise.