Don’t Kill Yourself Over It

Whatever “it” may be, it’s not worth ending it all. You’re responding to a small matter with the ultimate termination.

Would you murder another person over this? If not, you can master the situation. Indeed, it’s a minor shortcoming for you.

You will shorten your lifespan if you don’t get this trouble out of your mind. (And, in some moods, you do care about enjoying a long life.)

If you are aware that someone else has attempted to kill himself or herself, understand that contagion is no less a public health emergency than it would be were AIDS or TB to be the risk.

Just because self-destruction in some form—perhaps, even suicide—is being heralded by the media, you are an individual who can see and forge your own path. Just because someone else has made a suicide attempt doesn’t mean that you need to follow to be “cool.” People imitate suicides that are covered heavily by the media! Please see the Anderson article.

Lemmings have gotten a bad rap. They reduce their populations in one area when food is scarce, not due to following the leader in a “monkey-see, monkey-do” parody. (Specifically, a certain portion of the lemmings drown in crossing waters during a relocation. Please see Editors of Encyclopaedia Brittanica.)

For further information, please see:

Pauline Anderson, “Celebrity Suicides Trigger Copycat Deaths by Same Method,” May 10, 2018, https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/896452_print

Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, The, “Demystified/Animals: Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?” https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide. Accessed May 10, 2018.

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