Suicide:
The Darkest Crime of Our Hearts
By Noni Kent A.
Kaindoy
There are two types of
people who can’t reach their goals: the defeated and the failures. The
defeated are those who try again, while the failures are those who accept their mistakes. Without hope, they commit suicide because they feel they are
rejected by the world or by chance.
Suicide is caused by
loneliness, desperation and helplessness. This is the second leading cause of
death globally among 15 to 29 years of age, according to the 2014 global report
on preventing suicide by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the
Philippines the estimated number of suicides in 2012 was 2,558 (550 female,
2009 male), according to the same report. Suicide is committed because some
people believe there is nothing they can do to make their lives better from
sadness. They have no one else to help them change their outlooks about
themselves.
Their losses have been stuck
on their heads because they have suffered consequences that hurt them both
mentally and physically. In Manila, two students from separate schools in
Batangas shot themselves dead after receiving failing grades in separate
incidents on a Friday afternoon. Scene-of-the-crime investigators found the
body of Daveson Beron, 22, a mechanical engineering student of Batangas State
University and one of the suicide victims, a caliper .38 revolver he used to
shoot himself with beside his body, and a laptop with message on screen: “I’m
sorry, I quit.” People believe that when a person dies, it’s his/her decision,
but what matters is why. What possible reason is there that people want to die? What could
have been done to prevent them from taking their own lives?
The worst part of despair is
the belief that they cannot do anything to prevent it. While there are some
people who can deal with it after a while, some people believe they can’t.
People who fail to recognize true happiness are those who say, “I am nothing to
this world.” One example is a Filipino-American named Izabel Laxamana, who
killed herself by jumping off a bridge in Tacoma, Washington. Laxamana’s father
cut off her black hair as a punishment for ‘getting messed up’. Her father then
taped the incident and shared it online, which ended up humiliating her. She
felt like the world went against her.
So I am begging those who know this sad type of death, please listen.
Try to increase the esteem of those people around you, stranger or not.
Continue to make them live happily until they die of old age content and blissful. Instead
of punishing them for failing, try to help them overcome their failures. Let us
live life courageously and continue to live happily.
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