Comments on: How Fragile Life is – 18 Year Old Factory Worker Commits Suicide

By: nigel

nigel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:50:54 +0000

i see your point
well, Mike, i think it’s mostly my problem not to be able to understand. english is one reason, and cultural background is another. and it doesn’t matter if you are not a “perfect” writer, what matters is what you are talking about, and that’s the reason i enjoy it.

i personally object suicides. religon is the first reason. and what’s more, it’s just unfair! today i visted a classmate who got pneumothorax, ie his lung was broken. and he got so miserable with pipe penetrating his body(for treatment, you got what i mean?). it’s just unfair that so many healthy guys just take life for granted while others are desperate for health or even life….

By: mike

mike — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:22:49 +0000

and for your first question, about “factory strikes to pay for the rising costs…”. yes you follow correctly and the strikes are to get the workers a higher salary in order to pay for their higher living costs….

hey, i’m not a perfect writer – i took engineering in college! haah

By: mike

mike — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:20:47 +0000

hi Nigel,

depending on the religion – but most religions discourage suicides. They say that if you do not cherish your life, and kill yourself, then you are depriving others around you what good deeds you could have done for them.

Also, it means you are selfish. That there are other reasons in life you are on this earth, and that you need to die the way you were intended, naturally or by others hand, not your own.

its basically saying you do not have the right to kill yourself, that God has chosen a path for you in life and you need to live up to it, not waste the life you’re given

is taht clear?

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By: nigel

nigel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:19:52 +0000

and one more question…
what does Lammy mean when she said “tho commiting suicide is a big sin…which ‘d prob lead them to hell…
argh i dunno”
does it mean those commiting suicide will be thrown into the hell and nothing can be do about that?

By: nigel

nigel — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:17:45 +0000

well, actually we also saw the advertisement of intership of Foxconn, but neither me nor my classmates dared to apply…

but i can’t accept the idea of using suicide to achieve any goal. though some may face really bad problems and they did that for family’s sake, still that can’t be justified…

and what do you mean by saying “factory strikes to pay for the rising costs in China”(in paragraph 3)? you want to say why the workers are prssed so hard, right? i just find it a little hard to understand as it seems to belong to the next paragraph…

By: mike

mike — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:39:44 +0000

yea…..well I am kinda bitter a bit that Apple stock shares are going up so high…..and so much praise, and on the other side of the world, stories like this keep popping up. So I try to raise some awareness

a few of my friends back in USA see on their apple iphone backorders that its currently in SHENZHEN in production. So they email me, and then I tell them, ya, thats at the factory where kids jump from buildings….

By: David Ho

David Ho — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:34:53 +0000

Haha, I don’t mean to extend it that far – in that case i should have hung myself long ago . I mean more along the lines of… one of my strategic partners in a far off land has employees blowing their brains out over lost wages. Things and relationships that I have direct control and influence over

By: mike

mike — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:20:09 +0000

you own an iphone, right? so, you bought from them…..

By: David Ho

David Ho — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:10:47 +0000

Think a tripling of their salary would help?

It is truly sad to know that this is a part of the world we live in – but it is – and it’s not going away any time soon. I just hope that no employee or employee of those companies I do business with ever is pressured so far as to commit suicide. I don’t know if I could look myself in the mirror anymore if that ever happened.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:50:06 +0000

but isnt’ that suicide?

By: lammy

lammy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:42:50 +0000

aa i thought i said jumped down fm the building? anyways ;P