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Not everyone who commits suicide is demon possessed.
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The most common statement that people make after someone has committed suicide is "He or she was possessed by some spirits or demons".

We ignore the fact that many people are not living like us, have not been living like us and for this reason have not been experiencing what we experience.
If we continue putting all suicides on the other side of demons, then we indirectly deny to help those that are living a stressed life, perhaps of disease and poverty from which common suicides rise.

Let's try to figure this out, the commonest victims of suicide are the poor and diseased. A few people that live a happy life commit suicide, we cannot completely eliminate suicide however we can reduce its frequency by helping the poor and diseased. This could bestow hope in them since suicide is always committed by people who think they are not helpful in this world, people who are hopless.

Being hopless and thinking that one is useless doesn't mean one is demon possessed, it means someone is either poor, sick and therefore stressed. Chronic stress resulting from disease and poverty can also induce suicidal thoughts.

How do you vote?

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