Every year, 12 to 25 million people attempt suicide worldwide, and 1 million of them achieve what they were aiming to achieve. That means that every 30 seconds, one person is dying by suicide. Be it a child, an elder, or an adult, suicide victims come from all ages.
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“It is possible in this life that one receives death while perfectly healthy. It is also possible that one can survive despite miserable health. In other words, just like being healthy doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t die, there isn’t a mechanic relationship between being unhealthy and arriving at death. My own failure to die despite what happened to me is living proof of this.”
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“The moment I realized that death is given, just like life is, my suicide attempt transformed from being a story of failure to a story of success, because that’s when I started believing in the unseen.”
Believing in the unseen was a quality that Fred did not have before, but why and how had it been the elixir that changed his failure into success? “It is so ironic and controversial. In the beginning, what I was missing was my acceptance of self-deficiency in grasping existence. In the end, by admitting to be incomplete, I was becoming complete; being completed by God.”
Suicide is one of the most severe sins one can commit, according to monotheistic religions. Yet, this young man found God in the very sin that could throw him light years away from God. “I don’t define myself anymore as an outstanding, perfect intellectual as my friends used to call me. Instead, I am a story in progress. No matter how severe the calamities or how satisfying the joys are, I don’t come to an end unless my author ends the story.”
