The whole suicide is selfish argument, apart from being hateful and insensitive, is also predicated on the lie that the victim is always of sound mind in making such a decision. The truth is that a chemical imbalance is often the root cause of depression, on top of which, the medications administered to treat the symptoms can themselves contribute to the sensations of helplessness and desperation. How can these smug, coldhearted blame-game players be so willfully ignorant as to accuse the drowning man of finally succumbing to the inevitable, especially if the flotation device theyve been thrown proves to be filled with lead? If nothing else, everybody must have listened to at least one prescription-drug commercials recitation of possible side-effects, which invariably contains the phrase may cause suicidal thoughts or actions.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:47:25 +0000