Never Worth It

Last week their was an incident where a little girl was kidnapped by her father after finding out that the mother had gained full custody of the child in a custody battle.  The man had kidnapped his own daughter and by the time authorities found the vehicle they found the bodies of the man and the little girl lifeless.  They have yet to reveal the causes of death, but we must assume that the man took the life of his own child.  What leads people to commit acts of crime like this?  What drives people to want to take their own lives as well as their children's lives?  It's one thing to want to kill yourself, but it's a whole other situation to kill your child.  How weak must you be to feel that your child shouldn't be on this earth?  Regardless of the situation and all of the bad things that happens on this planet you still need to give your child the opportunity to live her life.  It's unbelievable how someone could just take their child's life for such a reason as losing custody.  More than likely the man had contemplated on taking his own life at some point and figured since he had his daughter with him, why not.  However that leads me to the topic at hand, How hard does it have to get for you to want to take your own life?  I feel like their is always something to live for no matter how dire the circumstances.  If not you would want to live to see your children grow and make it in our society as honest adults, you would assume that's the least a parent could live for.  Taking your own life could never be worth it especially with all the good things that life has to offer.  I've heard of people taking their lives due to financial hardship, spouses leaving them, and because of the way that society has us feel.  When killing yourself appears to be an option it's important that we look at the bigger picture of our lives, such as what we have to look forward to in our lives.  For some of us that contemplates suicide they feel that their is nothing else to live for, but that's so hard for me to believe.  I think that those people just do not have a perception of the things they could have in their lives.  Life is meant to be hard, it's up to you to find a way to deal with it and make it manageable, not everyone on earth has it easy.  I try to look at it as, I'm not the only person dealing with hardships and if life was easy their would be so many people more happy.  The sooner we come to the understanding that life is tough but we have to deal with it, the sooner we can understand that taking our own lives is not an option.  Parents it's important we talk to our children to help them understand that life will be hard and you will go through somethings that will hurt or seem unbearable, but it's how you pull through that which makes you.  Let them know that know matter what they go through life will still go on, and that giving up on it is unacceptable.  The rate of teenage suicide has risen 8% since 2003, which is the biggest annual increase we have seen in the last 15 years.  Lets help promote awareness for this situation, lets insure that people understand that giving up on life and the lives of others is never an acceptable option to choose.