It’s Not Your Life

There is so much talk today about suicide. Opioid addiction, mental illness, PTSD, and many other excuses have been used for one to take their own life.

Seems a simple act but it can take forever to accomplish. When life is too tough, for whatever reasons, the only solution is to end it.

The methods can be a simple overdose or a messy shot to the head. I’m sure there are all sorts of data on how people kill themselves and plenty of opinions of ‘why’ it happened.

For all those miserable times in life there are organizations, groups and a library of books and pamphlets to assist and help with whatever reason. All are well meaning and have volunteers and professionals caregivers who will listen and offer solutions as long as the funding last.

We are all committing suicide everyday.

We create stress for ourselves by not paying our bills on time or over extending our credit cards. We create a family we cannot handle. We drive too fast. We drink too much. We binge watch movies on a soft sofa instead of taking the dog for a walk. We take fist full of pills to ease a pain that won’t go away. We over extend ourselves. We do not communicate.

Everyday we are abusing ourselves chipping away those minutes or hours or days that would make our time on this planet longer. Is this how we cope with life?

Do children commit suicide? They don’t have enough experience to be emotionally distressed. Do animals commit suicide? Do plants commit suicide?

There is no instruction manual to life. There is no Q&A page to turn to if your marriage is breaking up. There are no sober friends than can tell you how to go straight. They have no experience to compare. There are always some unknown situation that wrecks the daily plan with detours and wrong turns and ultimately dead ends.

I’ve known people who committed suicide. It didn’t matter the reason or the method they couldn’t handle life.

I’ve had as many heartbreaks and financial mistakes as anyone else. I’ve been close to the edge but never considered ending this journey. I’ve had the same opportunities to paraphernalia and substances that could have ended but somehow came out on the other side.

So as we now practice yoga, jog, proper eating, plenty of sleep and feel life is in control, the air and water is more polluted, the nightly news causes heart palpitations, social media raises the blood pressure and there is easy accessibility to deadly weapons.

Suicide is committing murder but whom do you charge?