¶ … friend of mine overcome the desire to kill himself. He was suicidal and made several attempts on his life. Gradually he found the help he needed and today is still alive and healthy and no long suicidal.
I think my culture would find this story inspiring because today despair is everywhere and we see people succumb to it all to often, so when someone overcomes despair, which can be life threatening, is a great blessing to see. I think this would be true for every culture because despair is a universal phenomenon.
Freud felt that there was a death instinct and a life instinct, with the sex drive characterizing the life instinct and self-destructive behavior characterizing the death instinct (Life and Death Instincts, 2016). Thus Thanatos can be defined as the unconscious desire to die -- death being the end goal of life, according to Freud. He felt that this instinct became pronounced after an individual experienced a traumatic event and would then go about reenacting that event through reckless behavior -- this was Thanatos. Its application to scientific phenomena, such as an act of suicide, is apparent: it is the expression of Thanatos. This, however, is just Freud's view -- and other cultures may view it completely differently, as I do: I do not view death as the goal of life because I...
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