Response to DoctorJ's suicide blog/The People of Today are Softies

Here is the link to his blog, The Consequence of Life: http://www.progressiveu.org/234601-consequence-life

While a lot of the reasons DoctorJ put forth are a good part of why people commit suicide, one thing he failed to mention is drug use. When a person is locked in battle with their addictions, and their friends are enabling them to use drugs, it can seem hopeless to try and quit the drug.

Many times a person loathes the fact that they are using the drug, or using criminal means to acquire drug money. Often times, they have been trying to cut back or stop using completely, but their lowered will, due to drug use, of course, keeps them coming back for more.

Drug use is very prevalent in schools these days. While drug education is fine and good, one thing that schools fail to realize, even when they are vilifying drug use and the orders of society that use them, they still glorify it to some degree.

Telling a child, teen, or young adult, that there is a certain aspect of drugs that is sought out by many, a high, an altered perception, a means to experience reality in ways that were otherwise unavailable, tells adolescents that it may not be as bad as they show it to be.

Furthermore, movies and shows, depicting successful people using drugs, also adds to the idea that drugs can be used without reason or responsibility. Especially when stars and rich people get let off with a such an easy fine for them to pay, that it basically is a slap on a wrist. Personally I do believe that it is possible to use drugs without dire consequences, albeit, very carefully.

If psychiatrists can put "insane" people on medications that alter their perceptions of reality, for the better or for worse, then when did it become illegal to self medicate? One thing I have noticed is the inability of patient to fully describe their symptoms and the inability of the doctor to identify all of the symptoms.

That being said on drug use, more and more, I find the people of the days of yore to be more hardy, more tough, harder to sway from their set comfort zone. If a person from the 1930's was being picked on, they'd have just fought whomever; whoever won said fight would have the rights to give crap to whoever lost. If the reasons of said fight were legitimate enough, the cops would have even stood by and watched the fight. Of course, they were there to ensure that no one got seriously hurt.

Nowadays, it is nigh impossible to get into a fight, without assault and battery charges being brought up. We pay the police to fine us, we pay the court to limit our actions, we pay lawyers & lawmakers to be a go-between for us and our government.

Personally, if it is in my ability to do whatever action I want to do, myself, I would rather do it myself, then pay some "expert" to do it for me. Who cares if I don't have rightful certification? Certainly not myself, it is in my beliefs that I have enough conviction and motivation, to learn what I need to do.

Such is the meaning of a "Self-Made Man," & that is certainly something that I want to be. I don't want to have to depend on mechanics to fix my car, by any rights all I have to do is spend fifty dollars, on the manual of whatever car I would be trying to fix, and maybe fifty hours reading and realtime experience working out what I would actually have to do in order to fix the car. (although I don't drive cars, I don't need to in such a small community, I walk, ride bikes, or lastly, get rides from others)

Okay, back to suicide, the people from "back in the day" wouldn't have considered suicide much. They would have left town, they would have changed their courses of action, anything but commit suicide. By today's standards that boy named Sue would have slit his wrists, probably in the beginning of high school.

Childhood is the most crucial period in a persons life. It is when a person finds the most out about life, they find the idea of some inner-workings of life and how they become more and more complex as life goes on.

They learn the basics, that is what they are taught in school. They are taught to not ask questions, they are taught to take the teacher's word for it, they are taught that the teacher is infallible, they are taught to stay in line, they are taught to follow needless orders.

Part of the reason a lot of teens and young adults commit suicide, is the fact that elementary, middle, and high school, actually do NOTHING to prepare anyone for the real world.

I was taught that the government, particularly the education branch, were liars, cheats, thieves, and lastly, powermongers. One might wonder how I came to this conclusions. Possibly the fact that every single teacher I have ever had in school was a tyrant, they changed their own rules set in place by themselves, and the school district, to better suit their needs at the time, what this portrays to students, especially children of a young mind, that it is okay to lie and cheat, that power is something to be sought out amongst your peers and underlings.

Timeline time. Kindergarten-3rd grade: "Columbus, with his three majestic ships, sailed the ocean blue, he discovered the Americas." 4th-6th grade: "Actually, guys and gals, it was Fernando Americano who discovered the Americas." They stuck to that story until 10th grade and then they said: "Well, there is actual evidence that the vikings made it over here in the 11th century, centuries before advanced sea travel, without the aid of frigates and advanced sailing techniques"

One thing is for sure here, not one of these "discoverers" has any right to claim the Americas their own. The fact of the matter here is that the Native Americans were here first, they had set up their own, albeit fractured, civilization. The same goes for the Southern Americas also and it was European invasion that knocked those great societies off of the map.

Who knows what type of world we could have lived in, had they been left alone to their own principals? Nobody, that much is sure. What i do know, however, is the fact that the American government, particularly the military branch, went back on every promise that they gave to the Native American's.

They shuffled them to the side, "gave" them land to call their own, reservations, even though it was theirs in the first place, breached contract after contract, or even had chieftains sign contracts unknowingly to sell their land and their people into the hands of who? The good ol' American people.

Enough of that tangent, I am sure that you, dear reader, are wondering what my original point was, & at times, whilst writing this blog, I wondered the same myself; but alas and alack, I remember.

Suicide, it is every life's right to choose to end it. While often times it is a last resort, a last ditch effort of one to have some control of the actions around one's self and one's perceived life. I am of the opinion that part of the reason people resort to this so often, is the fact that our lives are more definable these days.

We all have an Identity, SS #, we all need a birth certificate. We have to be known by our government. They have to know where we are, what we are doing, how much money we are making, what we spend our money on. (and by the way i am not saying that these things are unnecessary, i know that they are in place for a reason)

When I was seven-eight years old, I tried three times, unsuccessfully, of course, to kill myself. I tried, not because I felt that things couldn't go on, that life was too unbearable to continue. I didn't try and kill myself because some kids picked on me, they did, but that isn't the overall reason, in fact that has nothing to do with why I tried such.

I tried to kill myself because of the inability of the "system" to deal with wrong doers, I tried because I have been molested, time after time, by different parties, & I told my mom, and counselors, I told my teachers and principals, & do you know what they did? Do you know what they thought of these accusations? They thought that I was just a boy that cried wolf. That these things don't happen to little boys, rather they happen to little girls. WELL, MAYBE THE CATHOLIC PRIEST SCANDAL SAYS OTHERWISE.

Another reason why I tried to kill myself, because my mother was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the hodgepodge of medications that they had her on made her more psychotic than anyone else I know. She has kicked me out on Christmas Day because I didn't mop the floor, sent me to Juvenile hall because I "drew swastikas all over her china," which I never did, it was my sister's skinhead boyfriend. She tried to strangle me, numerous times, because of the voices in her head.

okay, now a brief period to collect my temperament. and a great music video by the bloodhound gang,

So I guess in summation, we do need to talk about a lot of things, aside from suicide.

Oh, and one last thing, after the third time, I pretty much stopped, because I figured that maybe there was more to life than what I knew already.

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