What is suicide?
According to the oxford dictionary, suicide is the act of killing yourself deliberately. It is an act by an individual to end his or her life. It is a decision made by an individual to terminate his or her life. It is the intentional killing of oneself.
There are various ways to commit suicide, depending on the choice of the individual committing the act. The common ways most victims of suicide used in committing suicide include: poisoning self, stabbing self, hanging self, shooting self, burning self, injecting self with a dangerous chemical, e.t.c
Why would one ever think of committing suicide?
For you to understand the reason why an individual would end his or her life, you need to consider the situations that precede the suicidal act. Before people commit suicide, there is certainly something that must have led them to take that decision. The victims of suicide were already aware of the core consequence of suicide: ceased existence on the planet earth. They also knew that if they should commit suicide, they would stop living and they would not see their friends and family again. But with the problems they were passing through, they felt better off dead, and had the belief that their family can cope without them. Before one commits suicide, he or she must have thought about it, but from a narrow point of view. And they conclude that death is the only escape to their problem. People commit suicide as a result of these two themes 'helplessness' and 'escape.'
Studies have shown that most victims of suicide commit this act as a result of severe depression, divorce, separation, rejection, failure, bereavement, poverty, etc. But to tell you the truth, all common reasons why people commit suicide can be subsumed under my two categories of suicide.
Two categories of suicide
1) Suicide as a result of losing everything and the future
2) Suicide as a result of constant torment, no remedy
Most of the reasons why people commit suicide can be subsumed into the two categories of suicide. In the first category, suicide victims were once living fine and having a happy life. And suddenly, everything they ever worked for, or hoped for vanished in a twinkle of an eye living them with nothing.
In the second category, suicide victims were constantly in pain, depression, frustration, heart break, and other issues that might have tormented them. These problems seemed unending and it continued to worsen as the days went by. Instead of continuing in this suffering, they see suicide as the only escape out of these problems.
The causes of suicide posed an intolerable condition for the victims, and made them to be in a state of helplessness and the desire to end it sooner. Hence, the reason why most people commit suicide is because of the state of helplessness. their problem had put them into, and the desire to escape this problem.
How to prevent suicide
Freedom: Someone that have experienced a lot of sorrow and pains can only prevent suicide if he or she makes an effort to free him or herself. Even before the thought of suicide crowded the victim's mind, the victim was already a slave: a slave to the psychological influence of his problem. Now, I want you to understand, what ever depression or difficulty that an individual might be passing through, in order to avoid any chances of suicide, the individual needs to free him or herself from the psychological influence of that problem. Victims of suicide were often controlled by the psychological effects of their problems. Most times during depressions and difficult situations, the psychological influence of our sorrows and pains are inevitable. But when the psychological influence controls us, we don't think objectively; we think narrowly. We base our thinking on 'why the pains?' And 'how long will the pains last.' We channel our aim on how to escape that problem and not how to defeat it. If people allow the psychological influence to control their body and thoughts, everything they will always do and say will be in respect to that pains and depression their problems are causing them. This will make suicide to become inevitable, because the pains caused by the problem would look as if it has cleaved the person and refusing to leave the person.
Hence, the first step is to ensure that we defeat the psychological influence, and find the solutions to our problems.
Surrender: In order to avoid your problem leading you to the thought of suicide, you need to surrender that problem to God. The bible says 'Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.' The problem of man today is that we no longer consider asking for solutions from the almighty God, our creator. Simply because science, research and technology have taken over the world. God is still the ultimate and absolute, and he alone knows all answers to the problems of man. You need to pray always to God to give you rest and peace of heart. But before God can do anything for you, it comes with a price. You need to pay the price of salvation. You need to stop your sinful life and accept Jesus as your personal lord and saviour. God loves you, but he can only pour his blessings on you only if you are saved. Your sinful life covers you from God, and he won't save you if you are living in sin. Accept the lord Jesus today and do his will, and I assure you that you will leave to testify the goodness of the lord in your heart.
Share your problems to a close friend or relation: If you keep quiet, you die in silence. Whatever problem you have, you need to confide in a close friend, and discuss it with him or her. You are limited in your own knowledge, don't keep your problem to yourself thinking that you know it all. You need to share your problem to others and hear their views on your case.
Patience: You need to be patient. Don't jump into suicide thinking it will end it all. What ever might be the cause to your problem has happened already. It might be causing pains and sorrow to you, but don't stop halfway, see the end of it. The reason why people commit suicide is because they lost their happiness. Now that you have lost your happiness and hope, does it mean you can't find them again? No way! You can still find happiness greater than the former. All you need to do is to be patient, and work for that happiness. That thing you once find beauty in, their are some other things that are more beautiful than it. All you need to do is to be patient and work for your happiness.
Have a lot of sleep: Sleep helps to reduce depression and anxiety. So getting a lot of sleep is not a bad Idea.
Vanity: Everything in this world, beautiful or ugly will perish. Men will die and decay, properties and jewelries will rotten. Live is all about preservation, but no matter how long you preserve a man he will eventually die. So Anything that is making you to commit suicide will eventually perish one day. So, instead of committing suicide for something that will perish one day, while don't you look onto God. Without God you can do nothing. Look onto God, and allow him to show you the next course of action. Don't die a foolish death for something that will eventually perish one day.
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