Does your life belongs to you such you may take it?

Question

We are born surrounded by people in families, or even as orphans there are people around us.
With our life and bodies we do everything smoke,drink,grow fat,flunk school or succeed despite what we do everyone say: "it's your life". But a friend came to me and said that "your life is not yours to take (he did not understand people who were suicidal for personal,political reasons or Faith).Your life belongs to these 35 people that have known you for better or worst your whole life, friends and foes your existence is interdependent with theirs. Hence commiting suicide is a selfish and immoral act which is not your call in the first place".

Do you think he is right that at a certain extent our lives are not really ours?

Answer 1

That forgo's free choice, which doesn't give credit to us who havn't tooken the lesure of taking our own lives. I feel credit should be due, some don't thou. That aside coming to terms with the free choice you have in your life is PARMOUNT to understanding purpose. Till a person can grasp how they are NEVER under anyones control they can NEVER understand the intensity, nor the necessity, of the descisions they've made in our lives. Also this is an important step to understand karma, or rather how your life influences others, that inturn influcens yours. See sucide is actually a survival technique of the ego, that ISN'T based on one persons life, its actually a social problem and specks VOLUMES of bigger problems within society. Were people see selfishness, they need to see were selflessness actually failed. Suicidal tendencies is a product of a mental disorder, which is also a product of environmental factors, society being one of the BIGGEST!!! So to me this is much, much more complicated, then simple selfishness......