Suicide

Why does someone kill himself. Most of the people we hear about kill themselves out of want for something - whether it is the student not able to cope with the educational pressure or the poor soul who cannot feed his family or a rejected lover who cannot find a way of carrying on without his beloved. The rest are termed as suffering from mental illness depression or something similar which basically means that he who killed himself was not in his right frame of mind to have taken such a decision. I believe there is another very important category of people that people either cannot understand or choose not to. Aren't there amongst us a whole many who just cant find a place to fit, people for whom there is no joy in the living and a whole lot of suffering. And to choose death over life would be a very profitable decision for the kind. How cant such a person be out of his mind when he can be lucid enough to identify each choice and the consequence of each of them. There are people who would want to kill themselves but do not do so just because they feel there is are responsibilities on them that they cannot just overlook. They have to live for the few people who love them and to repay kindness they might have received, do repay a loan that they have on their soul. These people think of new ways of suicide everyday - almost everyday and the reason for not taking the plunge is not always fear - it can be one of these chains that the world has put on them. For courage is something that the person can gather over the years - after all it takes just one moment of courage to end it all and a whole lot more courage to carry on. The problem is that such people are not very different - they look the same (or 'normal' which is the term in use most frequently) as any other person, the only difference is that their zest for life is non-existent and they hate every moment of life forced upon them. I know my last few statements are somewhat vague but then so is the state of mind of such people.