......... when death becomes an option 

      Why is it that in the western world, where things are supposedly better, that is where suicide is often heard of?

      My friend jokingly said that if a child in the western world survives suicide, he will be given everything he lacked that made him contemplate suicide. But here, when a child is caught, he will be thoroughly beaten for attempting same. 

     Things may be tough here but no one sends himself to the gallows. The visit to the hangman is never optional. It is a trip made on court injunction. But not in the western world. A negative stock market report is enough reason for a man to take his own life.

     Alcohol has been fingered as a reason for depression which is a major prelude to suicide in the western world but then again, it is consumed in great proportion here as much as it is consumed in the western world. Why does it not lead people in third world nations to depression? 

     Someone said every man is created with a vacuum. The quest to fill that vacuum leads the super rich into buying bigger yachts and other luxuries. Some go for finer rides depending on your wallet.  In this part of the world, some men go for another wife. I guess the whites go extreme length in filling that vacuum which only CHRIST can fill. Any other thing is a waste of resources, time and effort.