Suicide (The Stingy Man’s Exit)

Collection Title: Peace In Chaos
Name of the artwork: Suicide (The Stingy Man’s Exit)
Dimensions: 21 x 30 inches
Medium: Pastel chalk on board
Year: 2024
Characteristics: Unique Selling Proposition, Certificate of Authenticity, The Artwork Will Be Framed After Purchase Before shipping

Meaning

Mental illness being a deadly disease to the soul naturally plays the same prank that physical illness plays on the body. When the body is sick it loses appetite for food. Likewise, when the mind gets sick it loses appetite for enlightenment or positive energy. One of the negative effects of this is that the mind soon begins to ponder on suicide as a way to deal with the current predicament. 

The most severe case of mental illness leads to this direction and many individuals have taken this route which is rather selfish. Humans have the tendency to assume the blame for certain problems that may or may have not been their faults. This is a natural default for individuals who decide to take responsibility for our lives. The irony, however, is when we take responsibility for certain problems but fail to articulate a proper solution for such problems and thus resort to this fallacy: "I take responsibility for this problem; I am the cause of it. If I'm taken out of the equation, the problem is solved.".
This is far from the truth as studies have proven that the sudden death of a loved one can cause severe mental damage to family members of that loved one. So, for every one person who commits suicide, three others are likely to have mental illness and at least one is likely to die dealing with the loss.

With this in view, this piece seeks to question my audience on suicide, is it really worth the stress? I also make a mockery of the act by exposing the dominos effect one suicide decision can spiral down on others. Whereas it may seem to be a heroic way of facing problems to the one committing the act, the opposite is exactly the case when we consider how many others such decision has put in a place of difficulty. Suicide isn't suicide, it's Murder, the frustrated us killing the gifts in us.