Subject: I will survive, maybe
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Monday nights I need to fill the space between 8pm and Psychic Kids, so I got addicted to the TV show "I Survived". I don't know how many have seen this show, but here's a quick overview of what it's about. Part of it's obvious, someone survived something and that's just it. They are stories from people who have survived terrible events, from train wrecks to serial killers. Usually they are on the verge of death, saved at the last moment.
One night I was thinking about the show, one in particular where an Idahoian woman was pushed off the Highway by 3 people high on meth. They beat her with a baseball bat, cut and stabbed her numerous times and left her for dead in a beet field. She played dead, to escape anymore beatings and crawled to the beet field. She laid there until she saw car headlights. She sat up and waved at the car, only to find out it was the people returning to set her car onfire. They stabbed and beat her some more and set her car ablaze. At that point, after they left for the second time, she decided not to fight anymore and lay there to die.
Would that be considered suicide? Is there a point in life when it's okay to say, that's it, I'm tired and I'm gonna die, so I'm just gonna lay here? Or are we suppose to fight until we just pass out and croak?
Here's my flipside thought. We always theorize that suicides are the ones that haunt and cant' get over their death. That the amount of depression and sadness, imprints on this world. Well, wouldn't someone who fights to the end and doesn't think they are going to die, be a huge imprint too. Imagine all the power going into living, only to be squashed in one fell swoop. I would think that would leave a lasting impression and maybe even cause to the thought that some ghosts don't know that they are dead.
Then again, is death really ever peaceful, or is that just a thought process from our own fears of death?
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