Congrats and @Shemzy! Nice work both of you!
I don't know if I should comment on suicide, as I've never considered it, and I don't think I ever will, although there are circumstances where I would do it. For example, if it would be the best choice during some emergency where everyone will die a painful, agonizing death, then I would do it just to avoid the alternative.
I've always had the belief that it's wrong to kill oneself as much as it is to kill someone else. Having no idea of what kind of punishment (if any) for killing someone exists in an afterlife, if there is one, is enough deterrent on its own for me. Killing myself and then ending up being punished for it right after to boot, just doesn't sound like a good way to enter an afterlife.
That pretty much guarantees I'll die by assault, accident, disease or natural causes.
Of course, I've never had a problem with depression, so I have no idea what that is like when confronting issues that would make one feel suicidal, so I'm not qualified to say anything about that, except that I know it's a real thing.
I'm sure that anyone who knows that I have it in my will to not have a funeral when I die, probably thinks that's weird. But I think it's much weirder to spend so much money on a dead, rotting hunk of flesh, when so many people are starving. I personally feel that funerals are just wasting money that could be used to keep starving, LIVING people, alive.
But that's what I'm having - no funeral and the absolute cheapest disposal of my dead body. I could have a military funeral, but that would still mean that money would be spent on a worthless dead corpse. I will likely have a military cremation, probably the cheapest route.
Thanks for writing that, it really made me wonder about this all over again.
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