Giving up

    
     One hundred bodies are found every year in the “suicide forest” in Japan. People who are not sure to suicide, brings rope with them, so that they can go back when they change their minds. However, there are still many people who commit suicide in the forest. Messages saying importance of one’s life and lovely families don’t work to stop people from committing suicides. People do not exactly know why people commit suicide in this forest, however, it is known that people who failed their job and no one to get help from, come often to the forest can think about giving up their life for a moment.

     Although I believe a life after death, one’s life is the most important thing compared to ant other things. Frankly speaking, I have thought about committing a suicide for two times. Both were after entering high school. I had weak mental strength whenever I thought about leaving my friends and families. However, what blocked me from actually giving up my life were my families, I always try to think who my family members will act when I leave them forever. Parents are the same, they all love their child and try to do their best as possible to their love ones. If I suddenly die, my parents will live a hard life without their son.

     What was good about thinking to commit suicide was that, I could reinforce the purpose to live with my friends and families. It is not health to imagine committing a suicide, but when you overcome those hardships that lead you to a wrong way, you can become a stronger person. Thus, I believe Japanese government must do something to prevent more death in the forest and the society as a whole. Firstly, I think the government has the responsibility to take care of the forest. They should remove the forest even though it is harming the nature or place guards in different sections in the forest. Removing the forest might be the best way, however it is harming the environment and it will cost a lot to remove all the dead bodies and clean the masses in the forest. Plus, not many people will want to volunteer to be a guard in the suicide forest. Specific solutions must be brought up by the government because they have the responsibility to protect their citizens.

     Furthermore, preventing juveniles from committing suicide is also a significant issue. In order to prevent future suicides in Japan, the government must educate students in middle school and high school. Students are the future to lead one country to a right way. The government must protect these futures of one country by high quality educations. This might sound too ideal, but it is definitely one of the best ways to keep students from committing suicide because students absorb information efficiently.

     We know the feeling of people who give up their lives. Doctors and advisors in mental hospital say that, when most of the people decide to commit suicide, they indirectly tell to their close family or friends that they will soon leave them. In other words, government or doctors are not the one who can keep someone from committing a suicide. The one who can really save one person’s life is actually every individual. What we have to do is continuously pay attention to close people and friends around us. I believe this is the best way that can lead everybody to live a happier life.

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Bear is my Friend!

     “I love bears and I want to a bear.” There is this one guy, Timothy Treadwell, who wanted to live with bears for the entire life. He lived in the forest with bears, only with a little camp that can hardly sustain his daily life. Timothy brought video tapes which can record his life with bears. He believed he can communicate with bears as well as foxes which he thinks as his closest friend. It was really dangerous to live close to bears because nobody knows when the bears going to attack. However, Timothy treated bears as a friend and he tried to touch and have conversations with bears. Along the video tapes, there were quite dangerous situations and this might be the reason why he died in 2003 by bears.

     I have seen many people who love animals and live with animals all day. Even, some of my friends love animals like dogs, cats and many pets that can be raised by humans.. They really do love pets. However, I have never seen a person who likes bears, which is predator of many animals and want to be a bear. It was really shocking to find out the fact that there is a person who wants to be a bear. I suddenly thought about a wolf man and I thought living with wild animals are only some subjects of making movies or horror videos. After getting shocked for few minutes, I changed my perspective. What if Timothy Treadwell was my best friend? Am I going to allow him to live with bears? I say definitely no.

     I might stop the relationship with that friend in order to make him notice that it is a serious issue. I don’t want my friend to be killed by wild lives and I am a person who thinks there must be a line between animals and humans. Animals can be pets but they cannot be a “real friend” of a person. They cannot have conversation or give and receive some feelings. It will be dangerous when a person crosses that line. People who crossed the line between humans and animals will get socially abandoned or hard to live a harmonious life with other people. It is because they think different from other normal people. For example, Timothy Treadwell only had one friend who gives food and shelter to him and his only friends are bears. Almost everybody in the world who knows Timothy Treadwell, will think him as “insane person.”

     I also love dogs and whenever I see dogs on the street, I try to be nice to them. However, I don’t want to live a life as a dog. There is an old saying in Korea, “If you live a terrible life, you will born again as animal.” I think this statement is partly true because I believe in life after death, and people like Timothy Treadwell might have done wrong acts in his before life. That is why he is living a life similar to bears.

     In conclusion, I hope if there is a person who thinks similar to “Grizzly man”, Timothy Treadwell, please stop them from wherever they are and try to persuade him or her to think again more carefully, There are many people who care about animals and sincerely love animals, but I believe there must be a line between animals and humans so that people can live sociable life with other people.