Suicide --- Acceptance versus Indulgence
A high school student was crying a lot, lost in her world of pains. She talked about how her parents said or did something to cause her to commit suicide. The school had an event to allow high school students to talk about their pains. It was hours of not only acknowledging almost everything that cause teenagers pain --- LGBTQQ and gender fluxed identity crisis, parental and school pressures, unfriendly and bully school mates, disrespect, insecurities, on and on, for 7 hours, but also telling them we love them, in spite of all these. We love them even though they commited suicide. Are we sure we want limelight on this, that we are not propagating what is already happening in all our media ? We now live in the era of digitalized and immediate perception. Could we be reinforcing our teenagers' misguided tendencies ? It must feel relief and maybe even good to offload and publicized these and be accepted, not be judged, even told that they are loved. Would that be self ind