On Suicide.
First things first, I'm talking about this one blog post by a person by the name of meskuku, about suicide and mainly about suicide prevention. Everything is written in english because it was intended by me to be read by meskuku himself.
Meskuku's website Islam Portal
is a great object of study when it comes to talking about muslims and their costumes on the internet, always talking about Allah and such things in the most strange situations. I don't have a good relationship with Islam and muslims but I don't think I need to talk about it for now. The only thing about that that I need to talk about refers to his connections between being muslim and don't commiting suicide, which is a great subject for discussion.
Diving deeper, faith and suicidal tendencies are two things that, in normal cases, doesn't exist side by side on someone. On most religions, suicide is a sin or something equivalent (as an example, it's called "haram" in Islam) and, well, the faith kinda forces someone to stand agains't suicide and that's good at all. When you lost your faith, you become really vulnerable to things such as suicide and, in that way, religion may serve as an algorithm to become a better and stronger person in different ways.
This is being my point of view about religions for a long time, why they're good. Being honest, I don't have a religion by myself but I really like Spinoza's idea on God (shown in the book Ethics
) and, if that counts as a religion, I have that one religion. But it isn't conventional at all, it's more like a cientific kind of way of seeing God and, because of that, Spinoza was threatened like an atheist back in the days.
So, losing faith and commiting suicide is a whole concept, almost poetic to me. Unfortunately, I can't describe well my charm by those poetic things, but may you find by youself why I like them so much.
About the platitudes, well, they're no good at all and I agree with you that the suicide topic should be more openly talked on society and, if we don't threat this like a real problem, we'll soon feel the consequences of this negligence. Now, I wonder: will we do it?
K. L. Melo