A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free) Feat. Cristina Scabbia - Music Video by Megadeth

Before I comment on this song, I wish to make the following disclaimer: I do not endorse suicide and thus am not responsible for any life-threatening choices made by anyone who reads this post.

According to Dave Mustaine, this song is actually Megadeath's contribution to people healing from the death of a loved one.

Even so, MTV still banned this song lest a suicidal person aspire to be set free.

IMHO Megadeath officially does not have respect for such suicides mainly because of the myths that suicidal people are cowards.

I have no doubt that such disrespect for suicide might inspire those people contemplating it to get pissed off and tragically end their lives.

Thus, suicide is the end result of rage at the hopelessness of their existence, which has been painted darkly both in the media and by misinformed people, including a few survivors.

Since I am of the opinion that the depression that precedes suicide is suppressed rage, suicide prevention requires informing and showing the depressed of the many alternatives which provide a fulfilling platform where they are heard, listened to, and consequently discreetly asked to rethink their final solution.

Indeed, suicide is one option which should only be taken IF AND ONLY IF it would promote a sympathetic pro-active movement to remedy the pain and thus prevent the possibility of copycats (humane euthanization).

My reaction to suicide is this: the fanciful wish that the ghosts of suicide victims haunt whoever the victim may claim is responsible for their demise.

If it is proven that the victim only has herself to blame, then the people responsible for saying so are irresponsible since each and every lack of sympathy by bystanders may have precipitated the crisis leading to suicide.

Such carelessness shown by a person's peers might result in a preventable tragedy.

However, the questions I will pose to potential suicide victims are: how can you throw your life away so easily? Why can't you save your life, which is so precious and beautiful? Can you see that whatever method you choose to end it all might not dignify your death?

FWIW, I feel that death by fentanyl which cancer victims choose is more dignified than a gun, jumping off a bridge or building, slit wrists, and hanging. This is because self-inflicted violence often is morally reprehensible to me i.e. each method desecrates the body and may cause unnecessary suffering.

However, death by drugs are also a desecration if the victim suffers. IMHO this is why death by a combination of opioids and another drug that amplifies the opioid's effect on breathing is cleaner than other methods. As well, government regulations make it difficult to obtain such drugs.

Returning to this song, Dave Mustaine appeared to disrespect Kimveer Gill in his response to the speculation by armchair journalists that the song inspired his mass school killing of one innocent victim and the wounding of 19 bystanders.

Yet I do not feel that Mustaine was disrespecting Gill as he was actually telling off the speculators.

By writing this article, my intent to show that the suicidal have suppressed their rage against the world so much that death is preferable to living in a world that consistently oppresses men for being gentle and good people like Kimveer Gill used to be before the three weeks of hell that he chose to live prior to his tragic end.

Ultimately, a suicide victim is often the victim of his short-sighted choices. Thus, suicide is the end result of self-victimization, made in isolation from the society that he chooses to condemn through his violent act of death by suicide.

Finally, let me against state clearly that I do not endorse suicide and thus am not responsible for any life-threatening choices made by anyone who reads this post.

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Original posted: November 7, 2012 1045H
Update edited : February 26, 2013 2114H

December 6th Should be a Canadian National Day of Awareness of Child and Domestic Abuse: http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2007/12/december-6th-should-be-canadian.html

Things I Learned From Seung-hui Cho: < href=http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2007/04/things-ive-learned-from-seung-cho.html>http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2007/04/things-ive-learned-from-seung-cho.html

I'm Glad I'm a Nobody: http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-am-glad-i-am-nobody.html

My Way of Learning from the Past

Looking over what I have written on my blog, I have made peace with what happened five years ago (2007).

This is why I have forgotten most of that year. Though I do review that part of my life from time to time to understand myself better.

However, because of the risks of being candid with my feelings online, I'm not going share them unless asked.

People do mature, and part of that maturity includes keeping one's true feelings to oneself, to save everyone else from the awkwardness that total honesty sometimes evokes.

To people who claim that I am being two-faced or worse, that I am dishonest, those are weasel words. On the Internet, honesty does not mean you tell your audience the truth.

When the time comes to be candid, each of us will choose what truths to share, while holding back the truths we hold vital to the very existence of our personal privacy.

Thus, honesty on the Internet requires only that I be sincere about the truths that I share.

Furthermore, I try to live according to the Japanese philosophy of honne and tatemae.

One's true feelings and desires are personal and private. They may reflect in the behavior and opinions one holds in public (façade). Sometimes, it is more practical to behave and speak according to each situation.

This only seems to be deceit, when viewed through a cultural lens that follows the either-or fallacy about truth.

In holding back the honest truth, one does not lie when the truths revealed help to prevent loss of face.

If I write that my father died, and do not write my feelings about it, then that only means that my feelings are personal and private. His death is mentioned to show that I do have feelings about that date.

Just because I didn't fully describe my feelings about my father's death, it cannot be assumed that I didn't feel loss or pain.

At this time I will admit that I was moderately depressed at the time due to losing my best friend the previous year (2006).

However, I've overcome depression and am managing it by treating the insomnia it causes. This is as much important as being able to express my emotions and process them.

If you were to ask how I feel now, then I would answer "I feel that the worst of my depression is over, and I have come to terms with both my friend's and my father's deaths."

For I would rather remember the best moments shared with my father, rather than wish he were alive.

As for my friend's death, it wasn't until I'd actually stopped wishing he was still alive that my mourning over him stopped.

Likewise, I try to remember the best moments shared with my friend.