Friday, July 20, 2007

Suicide can be a problem

Suicide is a great problem in society and we should, no, need to abolish it. It isn’t right to take your life in your own hands and just kill yourself. In a magazine article named When Violence Kill Itself it states that “violence is a weapon of the weak” (Sojourners). The weak have to use violence in order to get on top. Like Emperor Nero, persecuting people just so the people in Rome can have entertainment. I don’t know about you, but I think that Nero was weak. He was misusing his power to create entertainment by the mass killing of innocent people. I bet that he couldn’t live with himself after the great fire in Rome. So he just stabbed himself to death.
Another example of a mass killer is the Virginia Tech mass murder. What happened was a college student named Seung-Hui Cho went ballistic and killed about thirty-two people with just two handguns then ended his life shortly after. He also wounded twenty people in the massacre. This was the deadliest shooting in American History; it lasted about two hours, in two different locations (Robert Bowman).

Hitler was another example of a mass murder that took his life afterwards. He had absolute power, but used it for evil. The Holocaust was absolutely horrible and at least 12 million people died. Hitler might have been compensating for his own personal weakness by inflicting power over, and mass murdering the Jews.
It seems that people who do horrible things are very likely to kill themselves. They probably can’t live with themselves after doing the wrong deeds. So I’m here to tell you, if you’re reading, to not even do the evil deeds. This will bring down the suicide percentage, and probably all the murders in America.

So in these days after Easter, even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly. (Sojourners)
If you commit suicide it’s not fair to the people that love you to just in your life.

Works Cited
Tech, Virginia. "When Violence Kills Itself." Sojourners 36 No6 7 Je 2007 (2007).

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