Suicide Part 2

Some people make the argument that suicide is a personal choice and this is my argument to their small-minded thinking. I would never contest that it was an individual’s decision, however, personal decision is not an item of consideration when it comes to cause, because cause comes before effect. After cause has taken place then effect or choice comes into understanding, however, effect (choice to commit suicide) cannot exist without cause, the first line of consideration. After cause has taken place the effect is inevitable.  For example if I choose to steal bread they are saying that its was my choice that lead me to steal the bread and I am saying that; first it was the starvation that lead me to make the choice. The cause was hunger, the cause and the choice were separate and in sequence, I would not choose to steal the bread without the hunger. Someone would not choose to commit suicide without the cause. Obviously, any intelligent person would not venture into the realm of choice being so vast; which I see is the premise of the choice argument, they don’t want to consider the cause, they want to write it off as a personal choice and therefore personal problem. This is short sighted and fails to address the reality of cause. Cause is also quite different from impact, which they say is the cause component. When a parent beats their child and the child grows up to become violent, the beating did not impact the violent behavior, it generated the violence it is the cause. Impact is watering down the effect of a series of events and the degree of influence that has on a person’s psyche. Socio psychology shows that the imperative years of development are the ages of birth to 5yrs old, the time in a persons life that is the determining factor of the degree of emotional intelligence, and psychological health that individual will possess. Is it the choice of the 3 year old to be beaten, assaulted, and unloved? Did that 3 yr. old choose to have certain neurological pathways carved in their brain as a result of the abuse and violence they experienced? Those neurological pathways are very real and definable and result in depression and emotional sickness of every variety and those conditions are so painful that some people choose to self terminate but the choice came many years after the cause, the trauma. The emotional trauma is the cause of suicide not the choice to end the pain. If I fall, hit my head and suffer from a concussion, did I choose for the brain trauma? The physical trauma of brain damage is as real and identifiable as the trauma caused by early childhood abuse. The fact that someone would call it a choice is absolutely absurd to me, as if a person would choose emotional sickness.