The right to say- " lets call life quits"

Call it quits

                       “Sleep, the everlasting sleep”

So you have decided to call it a day. Loss of job, failed relations or marriage, terminal illnesses- there may be hundreds of reasons, well whatever be the case, it’s time that you have decided to call it quits from life and sleep that everlasting peaceful eternal slumber. Well, I guess one has understood it; I am taking about death, and moreover dying by yourself. But then, society rejects and that’s what makes you think “to die or not to die”. So killing or rather dying yourself, is it really a sin?

Well, most religions across the world, no matter how much meager or fragile they may be, denounce suicide as sin and the person who does it is considered to go to hell or receive God’s wrath. (God’s curse- how many times has this baseless sentiment prevented you from thinking something different?  They even said that Galileo was an anti-God, and burnt Joan of Arc on the stakes in the pretext of religion.) However, Hindu religion does support suicide to some extent. According to it, a man can end one’s life through non violent means, which is known as Prayopavesa. And for Prayopavesa to take place, one should have no ambition or responsibilities left in life.  So, going by religion as well, suicide is not a crime.

And now to the priests who say suicide is a sin. Ask those people to share your sorrows and hardships and lead you to the path of hope. You will find none. These priests are only concerned in licking money from disciples and followers under the name of religion and you fall a prey to their greed. So if you feel like taking the end step, don’t think about some stupid priests or holy people.

In this age of increased democracy, when there is so much hullaballoo about rights and all these, we perhaps tend to forget one of the basic rights of a human being- “the right to live, and a right to die”. It’s my life, if I wish to live, I do; and if I wish to end it, I can do that too. So what’s the harm? Suicide is not about compulsion, it’s about choice.  And the choice rests on the individual, and not on society, government or any other third person- singular or plural.

So, if one really feels like taking that extreme step and shutting out life, it’s his or her own choice and society should respect it.  It’s time that we break out from the shackles of those irrational, baseless and self centered religious and social customs and start looking at life in an absolutely independent and liberal way.

                                                      “I don’t want to live”

                                     “So I sell the mind and pervert corpse of mine”