Don’t Commit Suicide on a Weekday

People shouldn’t commit suicide in the middle of the day. It’s selfish. If you think about it, they are always troubling others with their display of a grand – though unoriginal - finale. I was commuting from work to my home before commuting again to my other job today (busy life that of a commuter) and I could not make my way home by train because, naturally, someone had decided to play God – assuming there is one - with himself and ended his (or her) martyr-ising life under the cold wheels of the choo-choo. What a heavy burden to decide to take on your back! Literally. That’s when this idea came to mind “Committing suicide in the middle of a working day is selfish.” And the ideas came pouring on: if you choose another means of transport instead (not to travel, of course, let’s make that explicit just in case), say the bus or a car, then the driver will have to face the passersby glaring and gaping and gawking and pointing and whispering... Not to mention the strain of complying with insurance regulations. Then there is the psychological side to it; the emotional scar that the bus driver will have to bear for the rest of his days, which might, in turn, push him to do likewise to end the suffering, and so feeding an endless chain of suicides. You could go for a more classical way such as jumping off a balcony (too messy) or shooting your brains out (almost equally messy). Have you thought after you are gone to the other side there’s someone else cleaning the crap you left? And of course there will be onlookers because morbidity raises curiosity - or vice versa. And the world will stop for one second– that world around the corpse, that is – and they will wonder why on earth you have decided to top yourself. Speculations will surely be of the kind ‘he must have been unhappy because his lover’s gone’ or ‘he was on drugs’ or even ‘he was part of a religious sect.’ Wow! Hold your horses, people! Anyway, I’m not here to talk about the assumptions on why someone has decided to terminate their existence, all I want is to point out how inconvenient it proves to be for others that you commit suicide on a weekday.