I read the papers yesterday and if i did not remember wrongly, there was a headline which read "4th MRT death in 2 months". So suicide via mrt seems to be the in thing now. All these suicides come on the back of the first case which managed to garner alot of sympathy donations totalling up to $10k. And i remember a clumnist once wrote that while donations are based on good intentions, the backlash would be tremendous. What great foresight.
For me, I can't help but feel that these people are extremely selfish. I know among you out there, would feel that i'm being disrespectful to the dead. It's true, i do not respect them at all, in fact i feel sad for them. What can be so great to even contemplate taking your own life? Starving african orphans are not committing suicide, in fact they dig daily at the various rubbish dumps, all in the hope to live.
Cancer-striken patients are not ending their own lives, in fact they're trying out newer drugs in the hope that they might live. And here are people, healthy committing suicide, showing such great disrespect to life.
Still some of you might say freedom! They have the freedom and the right to choose when to die. That's exactly where they're selfish. Their one moment of freedom led to the many restrictions of others. Think of the numerous people who suffered due to the disrupted train services. Employees who were late to work, people late for important meetings. And these numbered into the tens of thousands!
How about their family? The psychological effect on their family members. Children. How would they feel? Frankly, if i were their children, i would rather live poor and have a complete family than living more comfortably with a broken family.
Then how about the train driver? Although he did not intend to "murder" the suicide guy, but it's a fact that the train he drove killed him. Think of the psychological damage and nightmares, the guilt that will plague him. And the councellors needed to councel him? The no-paid leave that he needs to take in order to recover from that nightmare?
How can? Seriously, how can these people be so selfish as to affect so many people. The cost of their freedom is the restriction and the shackles that they inflicted on others.
So are they selfish?
For me, I can't help but feel that these people are extremely selfish. I know among you out there, would feel that i'm being disrespectful to the dead. It's true, i do not respect them at all, in fact i feel sad for them. What can be so great to even contemplate taking your own life? Starving african orphans are not committing suicide, in fact they dig daily at the various rubbish dumps, all in the hope to live.
Cancer-striken patients are not ending their own lives, in fact they're trying out newer drugs in the hope that they might live. And here are people, healthy committing suicide, showing such great disrespect to life.
Still some of you might say freedom! They have the freedom and the right to choose when to die. That's exactly where they're selfish. Their one moment of freedom led to the many restrictions of others. Think of the numerous people who suffered due to the disrupted train services. Employees who were late to work, people late for important meetings. And these numbered into the tens of thousands!
How about their family? The psychological effect on their family members. Children. How would they feel? Frankly, if i were their children, i would rather live poor and have a complete family than living more comfortably with a broken family.
Then how about the train driver? Although he did not intend to "murder" the suicide guy, but it's a fact that the train he drove killed him. Think of the psychological damage and nightmares, the guilt that will plague him. And the councellors needed to councel him? The no-paid leave that he needs to take in order to recover from that nightmare?
How can? Seriously, how can these people be so selfish as to affect so many people. The cost of their freedom is the restriction and the shackles that they inflicted on others.
So are they selfish?
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