Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
Re: Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
Agree. All these tragic suicides mostly happened in the provinces of Cambodia, even in Phnom Penh, those who committed suicide were originally from provinces.Anchor Moy wrote:And many have mental health problems, a low frustration threshold, chronic malnutrition/low IQ, no education, drug/alcohol problems, poverty and difficult living conditions - none of this helps with critical thinking, objective perspective or conflict resolution. Add to this an extremely small world view, adolescent angst and the importance of the loss of face.Luigi wrote:''it seems like more and more of Cambodians don't really have critical thinking skills. ''
Or conflict resolution skills. Perhaps a distinction without a difference.
IMHO
And somewhere in all that, these suicides represent a lack of hope in the future and a belief that things can get better in this life.
Depressing indeed.
បើសិនធ្វើចេះ ចេះឲ្យគេកោត បើសិនធ្វើឆោត ឆោតឲ្យគេអាណិត។
If you know a lot, know enough to make them respect you, if you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.
If you know a lot, know enough to make them respect you, if you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 13458
- Joined: Wed May 28, 2014 11:37 pm
- Reputation: 3974
Re: Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
Thoughts on Buddhism and suicide - it's not ok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious ... e#Buddhism
“If one knows how to treasure oneself, one should protect oneself well.”In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to commit suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against harming life, one that will result in automatic expulsion from Sangha.
For Buddhists, since the first precept is to refrain from the destruction of life, including one's self, suicide is seen as a negative act. If someone commits suicide in anger, he may be reborn in a sorrowful realm due to negative final thoughts. However, unlike Christianity and other religions, Buddhism does not condemn suicide without exception, but rather observes that the reasons for suicide are often negative and thus counteract the path to enlightenment...
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1263
- Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:12 pm
- Reputation: 12
Re: Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate
It might shock y'all to learn that you are more likely to off yourself if you're an American (30th most likely place to die by suicide) than if you're a Cambodian (75th).
The real difference is, as alluded to in previous discussions, suicides are not generall publicized or discussed in Western media (unless they're amusing accidental deaths of politicians featuring oranges and pairs of tights) whereas no such compuction is held here.
People who commit suicide are to be pitied and their religion matters not a jot. The country in 10th place is Poland (somewhere I am incredibly familiar with) and nearly everyone is Catholic. Yet, Filipinos (same religion) are right down the bottom of the rankings in 91st place. There are no simple generalizations to be had on suicide; it's an individual decision taken in moments of great mental pain (possibly mental illness) and that's all there is to it.
It might shock y'all to learn that you are more likely to off yourself if you're an American (30th most likely place to die by suicide) than if you're a Cambodian (75th).
The real difference is, as alluded to in previous discussions, suicides are not generall publicized or discussed in Western media (unless they're amusing accidental deaths of politicians featuring oranges and pairs of tights) whereas no such compuction is held here.
People who commit suicide are to be pitied and their religion matters not a jot. The country in 10th place is Poland (somewhere I am incredibly familiar with) and nearly everyone is Catholic. Yet, Filipinos (same religion) are right down the bottom of the rankings in 91st place. There are no simple generalizations to be had on suicide; it's an individual decision taken in moments of great mental pain (possibly mental illness) and that's all there is to it.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 13458
- Joined: Wed May 28, 2014 11:37 pm
- Reputation: 3974
Re: Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
Cambodian statistics on this are reliable of course ?TheGrinchSR wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate
It might shock y'all to learn that you are more likely to off yourself if you're an American (30th most likely place to die by suicide) than if you're a Cambodian (75th).
Heart attack anyone ?
Interesting link anyway. According to wiki, the high suicide rate in Bhutan comes from the Nepalese refugees.
This leads me to wonder about the global rate of suicide among refugees and immigrants. For example, does the immigrant factor (including Cambodian refugees) have an influence on US figures, what about the housing crisis, the mobility of US society in general ?
Also, how much depression in Cambodia has its sources in the upheaval of Cambodian society and the consequent rootlessness (landlessness) that still prevails ?
- Jamie_Lambo
- The Cool Boxing Guy
- Posts: 15039
- Joined: Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:34 am
- Reputation: 3132
- Location: ลพบุรี
Re: Man Hung Himself As Girlfriend Asked for Breaking Up
also in buddhism human life is in the human realm is seen to be one of the greatest, because in the forever ending cycle of Samsara the human realm still has the best chance of reaching Nirvana/Enlightenment, where as if in the next life you go to one of the lower realms of animals or lost spirits then you cant reach nirvana, and in the highier heavens your life span is 1000's of years or something, cant remember all the ins and outsAnchor Moy wrote:
Thoughts on Buddhism and suicide - it's not ok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious ... e#Buddhism“If one knows how to treasure oneself, one should protect oneself well.”In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to commit suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against harming life, one that will result in automatic expulsion from Sangha.
For Buddhists, since the first precept is to refrain from the destruction of life, including one's self, suicide is seen as a negative act. If someone commits suicide in anger, he may be reborn in a sorrowful realm due to negative final thoughts. However, unlike Christianity and other religions, Buddhism does not condemn suicide without exception, but rather observes that the reasons for suicide are often negative and thus counteract the path to enlightenment...
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Mean Dtuk Mean Trei, Mean Loy Mean Srey
Punchy McShortstacks School of Hard Knocks
Punchy McShortstacks School of Hard Knocks
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 0 Replies
- 150 Views
-
Last post by Fridaywithmateo
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: ali baba, Bing [Bot], Bluenose, Clutch Cargo, Deefer, Google [Bot], Kayve, KunKhmerSR, Province, Semrush [Bot] and 1429 guests