Human

People can be so completely self-righteous, disrespectful and inappropriate. With the passing of one of our nations most beloved and respected entertainers, Mr. Robin Williams, from a suspected suicide, you would think that people would be a tad more considerate. Wrong!

In my brother’s post regarding the death, he worded his condolences as a “passing,” which is indeed what has transpired. Robin Williams has passed on from this life.

Some asshat, in response posted, “he didn’t pass, he committed suicide. No RIPs for people who kill themselves. I can’t.” I would like to motion that you shut all the way the fuck up!

I hope you get run over by a Mack truck whose tires are riddled with rusty nails, but the truck isn’t what takes you out. Oh nooo. Too good for you. It’s the infection from the bacteria infested nails. It leads to sepsis and you fade away slowly and painfully.

Who are you, to be so high and mighty as to invalidate the life of a man just because of the means in which he’s departed?

Do people really not get the seriousness of mental health? That addictions start in the mind. I’ve always had an issue with this particular subject because it hits so close to home.

For years, during my youth, I was so angry with my mother. There wasn’t anything anyone could say to me, no manner of explanation, that would convince me that what happened to her, was anything short of selfish and unforgiveable. I used to tell myself, that nothing short of the Hand of God would ever make me leave my child.

I was a child, so I thought childish things. I was hurt, so I said hurtful things. As I got older, I was finally given the much need information regarding my mother’s mental health status at the time of her passing.

Cancer. Death of her first born. Forced Hysterectomy. Inadequate medication to balance her hormones post operation. Need I go on?

People only allow ailments such as heart attack, stroke, or communicable diseases to fall under the umbrella of natural causes.

Mental health issues are as naturally occurring as the sun rising every day. You’re more likely to suffer from some type of mental or emotional disorder, than you are to get cancer or have an aneurism.

So when someone’s life hangs by a thread because their minds aren’t in working order, don’t you dare for one second think to shame them because you believe they’ve taken the “easy” way out.

The natural progression of most mental diseases is death. The sad part is our inability to recognize the signs of someone heading down that path.

Suicide is a serious epidemic and their is nothing “easy” about taking one’s life. Nothing about the act itself or what/who is left behind in the wake of such tragedies.

If it were so easy to do, then we wouldn’t struggle with thoughts the way we do. We wouldn’t beat ourselves up for even considering it as an option.

We are only human; fragile and delicate. Our minds and hearts can only take but so much before the pieces that make us up, crumble and deteriorate right before our eyes. Most of us walk a tight rope each and every day and hope that no one thing will nudge us, causing us to lose our footing. No one wants to fall.

Instead of looking down at someone who didn’t make it, try to help someone who’s still here and needs your support.