Originally posted by: zorrro
Could you please clarify why you feel that they should be punished?
Becauuuse, it would have an impact on the young or small immature children/youth. Yes, suicide - the thought of ending life needs no examples from others... YET, people are influenced by an act of suicide - subconsciously or otherwise. Why do we see so many people 'hanging themselves'??! I had been frustrated myself many a times, a man in true frustration would never have the mind to find a rope/sheet, tie it to the ceiling and then put a stool and carry out the act like he's fixing a ceiling fan... It has become a sort of perversion I must say.. I simply find such incidents too silly.
Plus, a mild punishment can deter already frustrated people from 'attempting'. Most people do not attempt with the intention to die, or everyone would succeed, would leave no scope for escaping death. These people arent to be trusted(sorry if I am sounding rude)
Zorro, (I believe what Dostoyevsky says), he says, people never intend to die while commiting suicide, they do, EVERYONE at one point or the other wishes they disappear, leave this world, just vanish... but in the fit of anger, when people 'attempt', most of the times it is the sheer attempting that backfires...it's something VERY psychological. 'Death' is the most extreme thing, perhaps the only big thing that could happen to anyone, so those that wish to die, want something extreme in the hope to release themselves from their life. A man holds a knife and some sort of anxiety overpowers him, and in that anxiety(+ the numerous other frustrations) he kills himself... it's incidental, thoughtless. Anyways, this isnt the point...and maybe I am confusing you.
I pity those others, who cut their wrists, bite their tongue or scrape their skin with their own nails or something in their hand .. Now this is what looks realistic, it's believeable. Man in frustration cannot have his mind working is what I believe.
Also, I may not be right and neither can I clarify, but there is a reason why the law in India imprisons them. I'd like to know what is the reason behind that though.. Main reason might be detering people from attempting.
It's the state that has to protect it's people, committing suicide is bad for the individual himself and those around him. Maybe this is the way state shows responsibility to everyone by jailing the victim.. but jailing alone wouldnt do, they have to be given counselling as well... I envision something more like giving tutelage to the victim away from the society that didnt help the victim. (that's what I meant by punishment, and that's what it should be) 'Taking care under the garb of punishment' 😆
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