The Art of Suicide Without Suicide

If your enemies have a huge gun aimed at your head,
the one thing you absolutely must not ever do
is hand them the bullets.
Your enemy will always be defined as the one person who firmly believes
that the Universe would be a far better place without you in it. Therefore,
your enemy will always be seeking the most effective ways
to wipe both you and everything pertaining to you out of existence,
plain and simple. That is why giving your enemy a loaded gun
would be just as fatal to you as committing suicide with that gun.
There are numerous methods of committing suicide
without actually committing suicide.
You commit suicide when you knowingly and willingly
live the wrong lifestyle or marry the wrong person,
and it eventually kills you. Some suicides can occur in a split second,
while others take decades. Sometimes,
death hits and kills a person all at once, while other times,
death slowly and meticulously unravels a person over countless years.
So then who is the real enemy?
Is it the one who tries to put you to death without any real cause?
Or is it death himself, the very one who
has made a mockery of all love and dignity and virtue and righteousness and
truth and tradition and romance and commitment and sentimentality and
piety and hope by dragging them all to the grave and
mercilessly reducing them all to maggots and worms and ashes and dirt and
bones and hopeless emptiness? Why do people commit suicide?
Is it because they can only see life as nothing more than
the long road that always leads to death,
with suicide simply being a convenient shortcut?
Are we handing death the bullets
because we've forgotten how to dream those precious dreams of
faith, hope, unconditional love, and immortality?
Just because a people haven't had a victory for tens of thousands of years
does not mean that victory is impossible.
And just because a people have never triumphed at all,
it does not mean that triumph is unattainable.
Nevertheless, someone needs to defeat death today,
right here and now, by successfully reversing his icy grip and
completely restoring those who have wrongfully and prematurely died.
And someone needs to demonstrate that there is an afterlife
and another Universe after our loved ones die. Otherwise,
why try to stop your loved ones from committing suicide
when life is nothing more than the long road to death,
and suicide is simply the shortcut?
Why not simply give your enemy the bullets,
and just get it over with?
Sometimes, suicide veils herself
and takes the long road.

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