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Life Chain.
I read an article last weekend about suicides among young supermodels, and it made me think about the reasons of why people commit suicide in general.I thought about the chain of lives that brings every person into this world. Each person is preceded by billions of lives, from the simplest creatures to an human beings. Moreover, their lives were successful. At least, they were successful not to die until they had offspring. So, every living human is the result of an extremely successful story that has lasted for a few billion of years and never been broken.
What makes a person end their own life chain, even though billions of creatures before them have succeeded in keeping life going? How can all these ancestors with such strong survival instincts lead to one person who decides to commit a suicide? I don't know.
I mostly gave stylistic changes. You had very few mistakes. The last sentence edited was phrased a little awkwardly, but that was all really.
A very interesting topic. I would also second Pei Yu Huang's recommendation of the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. I have not finished it, but it touches on this topic, and is a very meaningful read. I also remember reading of Max Weber's work in this field. He wanted to know why people commit suicide. He found that Protestants were far more likely to commit suicide than Catholics, and attributed this to Protestants not having as strong a sense of community as Catholics. Protestants were more likely to feel alone and isolated in short. I suspect this is close to the truth. I read a work recently by Sandor Marai called Portraits of a Marriage. It is an amazing book. Marai struggled with an intense feeling of loneliness that he attributed to civilization and modernity. I read that later in life he committed suicide himself; I am not surprised, it was there in the pages. He was Catholic (well, Hungarian at least) coincidentally, so maybe Weber's wrong. I know this is a very long comment, but, well, this interests me alot I suppose.
Edit: It wasn't Weber, it was Emile Durkheim. My memory's going.
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