THIS IS TO LET YOU KNOW I WILL NO LONGER BE DOING A DAILY BLOG

For almost seven years I have written my blog daily, its purpose was a discipline for myself to force me to stay in touch with with what is going on in and with the world.  As long as I enjoyed writing it, I wrote daily.  It is no longer fun for me (I truly am ADD and I feel 'been there, done that; time for something new)  So I have decided, at most, I may write once a week and think I will work more on letting my opinions (after all some things won't change) spread on Titter.

Thanks to all of you have been around and all of you who have offered comments.  I will try to be a bit more faithful to Facebook, as well.  I am beginning to get used to my iMac and my mail seems to be available to me more easily than for the last month (though it seems forever!).

If I get an I want to develop, I may write it down here from time to time.  I just refuse to remain faithful (fickle blogger that I have become).

So, while I divorce myself from the obligatory daily routine, I am reserving visiting privileges.

Bye for now.  You will see me from time to time should you choose to drop in.

Thanks to all of you who have faithful. Your comments and feedback has enriched me.

Yiayia

SUICIDE AND SOME OF ITS FACETS Part 2

One must first differentiate between a suicide and an attempt at suicide.  When you suicide, it becomes a done deal.  You are permanently dead.  Psychology Today had an article, written by Alex Lickerman, MD.  It listed six reasons why people attempt suicide.  They are: 1.  They are depressed (perhaps once sad but then chemistry shifted to a clinical depression for which medication is usually more effective than talk therapy.  The two combined are good. 2. They're psychotic  3. They're impulsive  4, They are crying out for help 5.They have a philosophical desire to die 6. They made a mistake.

More detail can be read directly from the article by clicking here.

There are many people who feel that someone should be able to end their life, if they choose to do so. It is typical of our current time when religion has been allowed to dictate much our government is choosing for us, in its hypocritical way, not only deciding we should continue to live even when our bodies and minds are being eaten away by neurological disease, cancer, or other lingering maladies causing much pain and suffering. 

Terry Pratchett, an author of fantasy novels, diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 59.  At age 62, he made a documentary which you should read here. This was made in England, where he lives and writes.

Around the world there have been people arguing the right to die as strongly as they advocate one's right to live. Vermont, a leader in many social concepts, argues it.  Read here.  The question then arises, as so many states are trying to enact laws to prevent abortion, contraceptives (which actually prevent abortion), and even sex education to allow pregnancies through ignorance.  The logic behind that set of laws and decisions is unfathomable but somehow is growing.

Hopefully, our country will reach an enlightened age when the one thing that everyone will be allowed to own is their own mind and body.  Of course, the controlling choices about the body of women, especially today, is being made by men, for the most part.  Will we be able to change this in the near future? We an only hope the malevolent powers trying to take over control of our country will be removed from choice over others.

To read about the bill in Vermont and other states with similar bills at this date, click here.

SUICIDE AND SOME OF ITS FACETS Part 1

Th concept of what follows suicide is so different for so many who commit it..  For some it is a route to oblivion from intolerable physical or emotional pain.  For others, is is a route to a glorious afterlife.  Those who believe in Heaven may think to join a loved one in after life unless they are of a religion that forbids that image.  Death by suicide is probably one of the few crimes for which there can me no punishment by our own legal system though it is against the law in most places, a commentary of the ridiculous thinking behind those who think laws can stop anything..

The brain is a human organ, without which there is no life. President Obama has realized it needs much studying for scientist to get a better understanding of factors effecting its formation, what change how it functions and many other criteria.  Since the Iraq war during this last decade, the greatest number of brain damaged veterans ever in history are returning.  Doctor and other scientists need to gather more information on how to improve the quality of life experience, mobility, perception, reading of senses, as well as many other causes that change the brain including both legal and illegal drugs.

Suicide is a personal choice.  The person who uses suicide as an option for a problem solution often thinks little of the effect that choice has on others.  Children walking to their home to find a father having shot himself in the head on the doorstep, with pieces of brains scattered around them in the snow, cannot easily recovery from the shock, sight and loss.  Nor can the wife, dependent on her husband's income for herself and her children, easily recover after opening her front door and seeing her husband's feet hanging before her at eye level at her eye level.

It leaves survivors always wondering what they may have done wrong, whether they could have done more, with the hopelessness of knowing they can never get an answer to that question.  Suicide is death and death is final.   ...to be continued.