Pre-suicide messages - Ismail Arefa

Publication Year 2021 Publisher: Juice of Books Author Name: Ismail Arafah Number of Pages: 200 About the Book: "To my mother, my sisters, and my friends, this is not a good way, and I do not recommend it to anyone, but there is no other way." With these words, the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote his last words to this world, and perhaps they are among the most sincere messages written by a human on earth. The person who commits suicide knows that this method will not solve his problems, but despite everything, he pushed himself to it and threw himself into the depths of suicide. Perhaps one of the factors of the "attractiveness" of suicidal messages is that we find ourselves at some moment sharing the same feelings as the suicides, and this becomes clear when we read their messages. Who among us does not admit that Van Gogh's last message: "Sadness will last forever" touched him from within every time he read it? And who among us, every time he reads Dalida's message: "Forgive me. Life is no longer bearable," is not overwhelmed with a painful thought that urges him to repeat the same phrase: "Indeed, life is no longer bearable." In this book, we read together eight suicidal messages, exploring the lives of the individuals and their messages, not just for literary exploration but to learn from mistakes, to take lessons from their experiences, and to benefit from the messages written by those who departed before their unfortunate decision to leave life. Quotes from the book: "One is not defeated by losses, but by despair and loss of hope." There is no excuse for the suicidal person in his suicide, no matter how full his heart is with sorrow and how much his soul is filled with grief, and no matter how calamities and crises of life have afflicted him. What he has done is more severe than what he fled from, and what he has lost is many times what he has gained. — Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti