Suicide —— solving problems, or causing?

Do you view suicide as a solution to problems? If you do, this article is exactly written for you. In this article, I will explain why suicide is not a solution to problems but rather, a factor to our social instability. This act of desperation which has the potential to create disharmony in our community must be prevented by every one.

The suicide rate in Japan remains astonishingly high for decades as suicide in Japan is commonly accepted as a method to solve problems. Among the many people who had committed suicide is a large number of students who felt exceptionally helpless after failing their tests or breaking up with their lovers. They view suicide as a way to salvage themselves from their current plight. However, death can neither make them pass their examination nor can death repair their broken relationship. Therefore, suicide is not a solution to their problems at all and the only solution is to study hard for the next test and be more open-minded with relationship.

Undeniably, suicide sometimes does solve problems. In a well-known incident in Japan, three men committed suicide so that their failing company could get insurance and keep its door open. In this way, these three men do save their company from bankruptcy by committing suicide. However, there must be alternative ways to solve this problem, such as foreign investment, and suicide is the least effective and the least recommended way.

Instead of solving problems, suicide can cause problems to both our family and our society. When one of the family members has committed suicide, the negative impact on their close relatives is immense as they sorrow for the lost one. If the deceased person is the pillar of the entire family, the economy of the family will be extremely affected and frequently, the education of the children will be affected too. In some cases, suicide of one family member often creates a chain reaction which will eventually destroy the entire family.

Public suicide will result in social instability. Teenagers who do not have a strong will power may be influenced by their inconsiderate actions, and some will even follow their footprint. Children will be prematurely haunted by the terrifying scene of suicide and this is extremely bad for their growth. Sometime, many other innocent lives might be lost in one suicide case as the person who has committed the suicide ends up murdering others in the process. In Japan, a teenage girl who had killed herself by inhaling toxic gas poisoned her neighbours in the process, causing them to be hospitalised for many days. From all these examples we can figure out the immense trouble that suicide can bring to our society.

In the Japanese culture, suicide is an act of honour. This can be shown in their kamikaze attacks in the Second World War in which the Japanese pilots tried to destroy the allied ships by deliberately bumping into them. However, that is not an act of honour, and more precisely, is an act of desperation. Therefore, the population nowadays should not feel proud to commit suicide.

Suicide should never be our solution to problems as the problems it can bring far outweigh the problems it might solve. One of the major reasons why suicide is still so prevalent today is that many people still view suicide as an act of honour. However, every one of us should help to keep our society in order, and the best way is to discourage people around us to commit suicide and educate them on the dire consequence they might result in.