Suicide Awareness

Today (September 10), psychologists, psychiatrists, and guidance counselors are campaigning against the mounting number of young people who, due to depression, commit suicidal acts. The bothering part is that it haunts down young people more and more.

Yes- the population who kills themselves dominantly are the youth. They who multiply themselves in facebook, twitter, and friendster (kung meron pa). I just can’t believe why are these so called ‘civilized’ youngsters tend to kill themselves in a very insulting manner to God (if faith still exists in the individual), to his or her parents (if faith and love still breaths in the relationship) and most especially, to himself.

Suicide, for most of us (including myself), is a big stupid act. An idiot alone may afford to do such stupidity. One jumps off from a building because she got pregnant. Someone tied himself to a rope to imitate what Judas Iscariot did, due to the attention that he seeks that was not given to him. A young boy drinks a silver cleaner because of the sermons obtained from his drunken father and recently fucked prostitute mother. While another killed himself after her girlfriend’s announcement on their flash break-up.

We, who do not actually realize their conditions, are thoroughly conclusive towards them. Judging them is an instant choice, isn’t it? Can’t we really, at least, try to understand them?

We who claim ourselves as ‘normal’, treat them abnormally.

Last September 9, 2011, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman Campus, a anti-suicidal walk was organized to make us more aware about this pressing manner. I myself became much more aware about this assumed social theorem.

Committing this stupid act may serve as a joke-thing, but in actual reality, it’s not a joke.

Let’s, therefore then, be aware toward our interaction with suicidal people. They become social threats, especially to our generation. We could correct them through healthy and friendly guidance. Understand them. Tell them that there is still a great and loving God who alone would accept, understand, and above all, love them.