This is most likely my first and last attempt at a Ranma 1/2 story.  What
follows may see OOC for ther person revealed but...

C&C welcome, flames well be tossed.  BTW: This is my favourite Ranma 1/2
character.

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A Silent Sahdow

What is death, is it a something solid that we can actually relate to? Or is
it a simply a way in which people deal with the unknown. I view death as and
ending. Something that occures and may not be put off.

Someone once said, "It is not WHEN we die, for everyone dies, that we should
concern ourselves. It is HOW we die that we must concern ourselves with."
Now to most that is a grim saying. People generally do not think of death,
rather they think of life and hope to avoid the silent shadow. "It is not
WHEN we die..." People have been looking to find a remedy to stave off
death. They have to one extent or another had success.

Curiously it is the "HOW we die..." that cuaght my attention. Do we have a
choice? Yes we do. We may choose to carry out our lives to the fullest
extent possible, facing upto our chioces and actions. Taking the rewards
that we can and being content. We may commit certain acts that require death
as the penalty. We may also take our own lives.

It has been argued that suicide is wrong. Once it was considered a criminal
offence, something to be cured by being put into jail. Then it became to be
recognized as an illness that required therapy. But is suicide truly wrong?
Is it not our own lives?  It has been argued that although suicide is an
"escape" for the person from their daily struggles that suicide only hurts
the living.  It robs those the dead have left behind from the companionship
and possibly love of those that have died.

We each have a moral obligation to choose. No one should be allowed to
choose for us. Some see suicide as a way to punish themselves for some
misdeed. That could be possible, wether the misdeed was imaginary, forced or
real. For those people counciling is the best option.

So why have I turned onto this morbid subject? Simple really, if you haven't
guessed it yet then I have been too subtle.  Why have I not choosen pills? I
require a gaurnteed solution. A gun is too loud. So it is a knife, swift
only painful for an instant. A complement to the silent shadow of death.

Why? The secret must rest with me.

        - Last Journal Entry made by Tendo Nabiki 
          before committing suicide. Date with held.
Doug
Rakura Sakuya's Accountant
http://log.on.ca/users/helm/anime/index.htm
http://log.on.ca/users/helm/sako/sakohome.htm

Sailor Bean : "For puttin' me in this RIDICULOUS SAILOR SUIT
	      - ya sick little monkey - I *WILL* PUNISH YOU!"