Suicide.

Anyone else find the irony in those lamentations and missives of self pity pouring forth of late from those whose hero has chosen a length of rope or a pistol cartridge while some of those same mourners would have the government support us common folk getting all the pills we might like to relieve the system of the burden our own existence poses?  Would they have been “beautiful” and “dignified” deaths were the rope or .38 round to have come with a doctor’s note?  

Dignity does not come in a bottle nor at the end of a rope nor barrel. Dignity lives in the human heart and must be shared. Love heals and elevates those hearts beyond the self.  Let us all consider this as our society continues to discuss a system of suicide offerings cloaked in the suggestions of dignity and comfort for the ailing, alienated, and vulnerable.  

Systems don’t love.  People do—when we are living outside of ourselves for others, regardless of their standing in society.

- James Ehlers