From: Le@yabbs
To: robtelee@yabbs
Subject: if...
Date: Sat Mar 19 09:53:30 1994

If I read you correctly, your argument is that suicide, and
esp. teen suicide, is a waste of a potentially productive and
happy life.  I have to say that in some cases this could be the
case, and the unsuccessful suicide attempts of people who fit
into this category give merit to that argument.  But what
about those who have to endure incredible emotional and
psychological pain?  Who are we to judge what another human
should go through?  Is it enough to say that one day it may get
better?  What if it doesn't?  I think that people in pain often
end up taking it out on others.  I for one can tell you that I 
lived in hell for four years because of a mentally disturbed father
who had himself been abused as a child.  He committed suicide.
And I can honestly say that my life would have continued to be
a living hell had he lived, and that any potential I had would
have been crushed, just as his was.  While I won't say that
his comitting suicide was right or wrong, I will say that in 
taking his life, he saved those of his three children.
(Think about it, some people who commit suicide are future
murderers and criminals, can we judge the correctness or incorrectness
of this act by future possibilites?)