This hits a little closer to home than it would have a few years ago, but...
How is it the describing suicide as “death with dignity” and pushing to legalize “assisted suicide”, doesn’t encourage a culture where suicide is seen as an appropriate action?
What if we didn’t mythologize people like Kurt Cobain?
How is it that we can disconnect teaching that humans don’t have a purpose, that life is a matter of chance, that we’ve descended from monkeys, that “nihilism lite” is a valid worldview, that it’s perfectly ok to end human life for the convenience of others, from the increased number of suicides.
I know it could be considered simplistic, and that there other factors, but isn’t it just possible that if we as a society started from a place where all human life had value, that we recognized and embraced the imago Dei present in all of us, and that we’re on this earth for a reason, that we might look at suicide a bit differently?
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On the mythologizing Cobain, I read an article recently that suggested the primary cause of school shootings these days is the mythologizing of the Columbine killers. Same thing.
Seems obvious. Remove human value as a mere product of evolution, embrace murdering babies and ending human life in the case of "suffering" (in quotes because the entire term turns out to be ambiguous) and we would be foolish to expect less suicides or shootings.
If "suffering" is an acceptable reason to provide "death with dignity" under certain aspects of life, why isn't at acceptable to all aspects of life.
I think it's safe to say that Spade or Bourdain was "suffering", why aren't people lauding their choice as "dignified" and a way to avoid "suffering", instead of reacting the way they are.
We could probably chalk this up to one more example of the double standard we see so often.
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