Suicide´s how some show weakness, or their strength. A person must pick a side: Ending their suffering and causing their family mounds of pain, or dealing with their issues while their loved ones live obscured by secrets. There is no grey, just black or white. Or that´s what I used to think.
It is not common for people to survive a suicide attempt because, well duh, it´s suicide. But what if the person wasn´t certain of dying? Could this be the missing shade of grey? It is in our genes and implanted in our mind like a microchip: we are born, not prepared to die nor ready to embrace death. This, Brent Runyon wrote in The Burn Journals, and I totally agree with him. After five failed suicide attempts, one is certainly not convinced to meet Death. And this boy seems so normal. He´s 12! Does he want to commit suicide because he could get caught stealing or was there something else? It is common for children who are molested or abused to seek death.
But once again, the benefit of sight is also the beauty of deception. Take Susan Boyle as an example. On the X Factor, she stands on stage and people just laugh. Then, this woman, who has never had her first kiss, blows the disbelieving audience and judges away.
Excuse the cliché: one must never judge a book for its cover.
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