Alot of people subscribe via witty polemics and pop aphorisms to suicide, misappropriating classical theories of freedom, liberty, expression of free will and the good as reasons for it to awkward, juvenile cases that were clearly not well as appropriating Euro-Nihilistic arguments for it, from thinkers as diverse as Hegel to Emo-Punk Music artists who satire a mockery of life to fit their counter culture fame.
Suicide is not a matter of personal choice, in that sense your making the choice of killing yourself linearly for the others who survive you without involving them, and they must live with the consequences, beginning obviously with your fucked up corpse, the ripples emotional and sociological, and the repercussions of living in a world minus your input, effort, and perspective… people brought you into this world, yet clever selfish you had to take yourself away. You suck, and as punishment for even contemplating suicide, you punishment is to live.
Lithuania and Greenland both coincidentally live on the very edge of Scandinavian culture, being heavily influenced by it, yet not quite a part of it. As the sinews of Scandinavian Social-Democracy unravels, where their brand of socialism is increasingly unable to withstand the tidal forces of history… working longer hours, higher rents, longer to retire, larger homeless and unemployment rates, suicide and divorce rates, and radical secularization, and decreasing birth rates and industrial recession… these two countries give us a glimpse of the regions future… both Greenland at number one, and Lithuania at 2, have the HIGHEST RATES OF SUICIDE ON THE PLANET, and Scandinavians arent exactly shy on the list in terms of offing themselves off either. Ikea apparently, is no Consolation to a life devoid of God and Philosophy… even less so since they moved to the Netherlands.
In both Greenland and Lithuania, its largely the disenfranchised… young men and the elderly, in areas where the best potential for starting anew exists, find their in, in the Urban versus Rural, Communal versus Individual rift that is the classic of modern European philosophy, perhaps its most defining feature. It if here, on the frontier, that its philosophical worth is most being tested, and the individual, feeling torn and divided, without hope and full of despair from a future lacking in a sense of themselves included, are signing off from the machine, hurtling themselves, in very violent means, to death.
No, these deaths are not pill popping and falling to sleep necer to wake again deaths, these are violent suicides designed to get the job done, without regard to the pain and suffering the suicide involves.
If there is a fundamental flaw to every philosopher, it is simply this; the inability to build a house from all the stones they’ve failed to turn, and live well in it. Suicide lives in the lee of such architecture, the undiscovered possibilities of our lives. You see a sunrise, you see every sunrise, but forever hidden to the night of closed eyes is the answers of the scope of our quiddities, nuanced, unexpected, and new in their relations to you.
Mankind on the whole lives in this scope, an inscape constantly turning. Every suicide takes away a unique awareness and understanding of our now, denies to our survival, our collective understanding, our own nature.
If there is a natural republic to humanity, its sole law is to live, and to give, push forward, to renew and grow… in a single duality, to Know and Discover.
Suicide is a declaration of war against all that is philosophical. It is a hatred of mankind, a turn against the good, and the highest crime against the such a state. The only exceptions affirm the rule, the overriding value for others to live.