Con: Every life touches people in ways we can't imagine

Con: Every life touches people in ways we can't imagine



Every life has a purpose. Sometimes it is really hard to see the purpose: the handicapped person, the mongoloid child, the person who survives an automobile accident, left maimed for life while everyone else dies.

Why?

The child who is drowning underwater for 10 minutes and survives with no damage while the next child is under for just three minutes and dies?

Why?

We don’t know, and because we don’t know, we have to trust in God or however our higher power is called that there is purpose in everything — even suffering.

We don’t know.

The mystery of life
And just because we don’t know, we have to accept the cards that are dealt to us and play them until the last card.

A person who chooses to kill himself sends a ripple.

It is just like the man who is contemplating death because he cannot see further than the pain and suffering he is enduring and the pain and suffering he is forcing upon others unless he stops to consider the influence and impact he or she may have upon other lives and not even know it.

We are a delicate and intricate web of life.

Our decisions have impact just as in this imaginary letter written to a man who wants to take his own life.

Dear son,

Wow. I can see what you are going through, and I am so sad. The pain is unbearable, I know. The expenses are ridiculous, I know.

I took the same out as you are planning, thinking it would be the best all around. But what I have found is that I didn’t have a clue.

That sweet nurse that came by my bed every morning said that I was her reason to go on. Four kids — no husband bills out the wazoo — but I still inspired her somehow.

I didn’t believe her. So I made the same decision you are planning.

When she found me it was more than she could bear, and she killed herself, too.

I not only have the pain of my death but that of this poor young woman. And now those kids who have been remanded to the state — they have no future.

There was a plan for me — God’s plan — but I thought I knew better, just like you think you know better.

But you are wrong. The old saying — there is a time and a purpose to everything — well, it’s true.

Allow your life to play out as God planned. You don’t have to use extraordinary measures to prolong your life. Let God come and get you. I wish I had.