Is Suicide Evil? Poem by Gary Diamond

As the tortured child
Would breathe it's last breath
Blood soaked
At the end
Of the
Rope

Nobody asks to be born, nobody can
Or at least not in ways we know about.
We've made it here somehow
It may be a test
Might be something worse.

The society we endure today is fraught with
Diminishing returns
Ever increasing
Problems
Fractures
Any which lack of harmony.

We're eating up the planet too fast.
I said we're eating up the planet too fast.
We consume all it has to offer
And belch it back out
Smoke stacks and car fumes
Handshakes of carbon monoxide.

We're also breeding too fast.
I said people are spreading seeds too far.
Medical science had a good intention.
It seeked to cure disease and wish away pain
Sadly
It backfired.

Now every disease cured means more survive
So if the Earth is a cage
We're battery hens, crammed in with
No room to breathe.

It's hard to be an individual when -
The amount of people who are like you increases
Only today I found another man with my name
Who has the same hobbies and some of
The same talents.
If that isn't a passion killer
I'm not sure what could be.

It's hard to be an individual when -
Even though a massive population problem
Is obvious to all
People would rather remain walking
Stereotypes and
Burn all that differs from their own.

So what if we abolished all forms of treatment
Except for those who did something heroic
Or those that show the greatest potential?

What if we legalised and encouraged
Euthanasia and suicides
And woke one day to see
Vigilante murderers
Chasing down those
That the police
Could or would never catch.

Is suicide evil?
If someone is unhappy
And contains enough bravery
To get off this existance we know
And into something beyond
What right do we have to speak out?
They made a choice that
Might just be greater
Than any we've still yet to make.