Suicide as a Cop Out
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I read this article today Suicde Body Unclaimed and wondered about the nature of this particular suicide.
It’s easy for all of us to box suicide into a depressive or mental illness and explain it away.
But what if, in this case, it was a carefully planned execution? This man killed his wife and then himself over money, debt to be more specific.
Soecity seems to collectively hate him for his final action.
Not all suicides are through ’sickness’, some are through malice, which is not traced back to an illness. Some people are just mean and horrible and it is their final act of hatred for the world and everyone they knew in it.
So how do people who loved this person move on? Where do they find comfort?
They don’t.
It takes years to recondile the hatred and the love that they feel for this person simultaneously. And no-one wants to know about the love part, they just want to hate them, so the ones who loved him end of feeling ashamed because they loved them in the first place, this person who could do such a thing.
Instead of feeling glad that the earth has ridden itself of such scum, maybe we could spare a thought for those who loved him and are too mortified to even claim and bury his body.