Just recently I read a discussion on www.youtube.com about whether or not murder is the worst crime a person could do. Now I ask you dear users of this website what you'd call the worst thing someone could do. Personally I'd say killing oneself is the worst crime one could commit. Of course I understand that some people just live a terrible life and they may not see a solution to their problems and thus they lose hope and finally the will to live, but: 1.) The fellow men of someone who killed himself may feel guilty for not being able to stop this person or maybe not even realizing what he or she was about to do. 2.) There have been enough examples in human history that prove that an ordinary person can get used to pretty much everything: There have been reports of soldiers who fought in at least one of both world wars for example, saying they sometimes had to eat their food sitting between their dead companions who had died in the precedent battle. On the other hand you'll also find unbelievable many examples that became less famous. Me for example, I imagine it to be an unbearable destiny to sit paralyzed in a wheelchair, knowing you may never be able to walk again. However there sure are millions of paralyzed people worldwide who somehow manage their lives. They find jobs, have friends and some of them even are able to live a better life than some people who are not paralyzed. There even is a very famous German polititian who depends on his wheelchair just to mention one of them. 3.) If your living conditions are really so bad that you just can't bear them, they may not last forever, because so far there isn't a single example of something unbearable that lasted forever: A dictatorship that treats its citizens really miserably will be put to an end one day-be it because of a war or because of a revolution. Another example to prove this theory of mine is the fact that there isn't a single war that lasted forever. Sure the Thirty Years' War lasted for decades, which is a rather long time, but it ended and the survivors of this war…just survived and they could go on with their lives. Now just to give you an example of a more recent event: A lot of people died during the earthquake of Haiti and even more got wounded badly. However these badly injured survivors usually had to wait for hours or even days till they got saved, because a lot of them were caught under what remained of their houses. Getting freed from these "prisons" didn't automatically mean you'd survive, because Haiti is one of the least developed countries and medical healthcare is very poor over there, which means that more people died later because of the uncountable diseases that started spreading after the disaster. However there still are people who survived all of this and allthough it may still take several years till things start getting more or less normal over there again, the citizens of Haiti can be sure that the worst is over. 4.) A lot of the people who commit suicide are either disabled or very old and thus they somehow feel useless, but even (or rather especially) in this case this is a horrible deed, because then you can say that these people partly justify or at least ease the horribleness of the so-called "euthanasia-programs" of the nazi's who in their propaganda justified the murder of not so fit people by saying that for them life would only mean unnecessary suffering. (Of course their real reasons for the murder of people like that were rather economical ones, but that's another subject I think.) Finally I have to say that according to me there are more and better reasons to go on with one's life than to put an end to it. At least you should give it a try, even if everything seems hopeless at the moment.
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