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Hara-kiri
HARA-KIRI

Definition: (from Japanese) An act of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach with a sword, performed especially by the Samurai in Japan in the past, to avoid losing honour.
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* All seven elements would be in.


1. Purposeful and necessary, for who disembowels self, even if idea (= belief) is not quite understood by some others.

2. No discussion is held with any other before decision to take own life is made.

3. What could likely lead to dishonour would have been caused by person committing act, whether directly or indirectly.

4. There will be no possibility to avoid dishonour, if person stayed alive, or chance to restore honour, if it is lost, when alive.

5. Death will be swift and with the least pain.

6. (Reserved.) (The corpse, will not be charged for an illegality - where possible, is quickly and hygienically disposed. And no one will be prosecuted for aiding and abetting suicide.)

7. Relations or loved ones, left behind - alive, benefit from act, even if this was not the (= your) initial intention.
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It's yours (theirs), ... MY LIFE GOES ON.






Quote: "Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honour". - Joseph Addison.

Quote: "When faith is lost, when honour dies, the man is dead!". - John Greenleaf Whittier.

Quote: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die". - Gilbert C. Chesterton.

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