The ‘right to remain silent’ forever
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
Suicide is a bad choice, but it is still a choice. It is and will always be against the law of God who is the giver and taker of life.
The late Secretary Angelo Reyes made a bad choice but let us respect that; let it be and implore God’s mercy upon his soul so that he can rest in peace. Then we all say “Amen” to that.
Blaming is the worst argument and does not prove anything besides the fact that it is adding “salt to the wounds” if not insult to injury. Neither is romanticizing the suicide by labeling it as an “an act of heroism” helps ease the pain of the bereaved or the victim himself. Psychologists and mind experts are all agreed that suicide is a form of cowardice enveloped with egoistic pride or perhaps a misplaced sense of altruism such as “saving” one’s family or nation from further disgrace but disguised as self-effacement and heroism, as do the Japanese seppuku.
But what led to an otherwise courageous man, who had daily breakfasts of work related pressures from all flanks being consecutively at the helm of three of the most strenuous departments of government; a soldier who fears no one, not even the dreaded MILF extremist, to end it all would always remain a deep mystery. Not even extenuating triggers, nor cryptic suicide notes, and premonitory actions could lay bare the reasons. As one psychologist says, a suicidal person is often caught between the “devil and the deep blue sea” — an ocean of rational and irrational, the conscious and subconscious, the angst of existence and non-existence, nothingness or just too much of it..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110213com5.html
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