The following discussion not only contains serious material, but I want to make it perfectly clear that I have no desire to end anything in my life right now (including my life). I’m just raising questions and a discussion. Besides, I still have to meet and marry Adam Brody.

I’m sure most of us have at least heard the gossip regarding Owen Wilson’s “suicide attempt” this past weekend. I put it in quotes because until he actually states that it was, technically it is just a rumor. My point though is not to gossip about the celebrities though.

I bring up Wilson because after chatting about it with my friends, many of them couldn’t understand why someone who is so famouswith so much money would even consider ending his life. I do realize that most of you understand that money and fame doesn’t always solve all our problems, and I think that with recent celebrities we are definitely seeing that (Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, etc).

But what about us non-celebrities who are experiencing internal difficulties? Suicide is certainly a sensitive topic to discuss, but that doesn’t mean we should keep under lock and key on the top shelf of our closets. Every day people of all ages, races and locations deliberate over whether their lives are worth living?

Yes there are medicines and yes there is therapy that can help to answer this question, but what if these options don’t work for someone? Is it at all possible that maybe it is intended for some people to end their own lives? And I want to make it clear that I mean ADULTS when I say “some people.” Children, especially teenagers and young adults, are experiencing all sorts of feelings while enduring change, and these feelings may (or may not) eventually fade. Hence, as young adults, we may be depressed one day but then feel much happier the next week. I am not promoting suicide, but then again, I am not condemning it.

Our lives are incredibly complicated and I’m not sure that I believe “we should just push through it” in every person’s situation. Who are we to judge? If a person is enduring intense physical pain that cannot be treated and is not subsiding, would we let them suffer? Would we ask them to “push through it?” Is there such a different between physical and mental pain? It is a difficult question, and maybe there isn’t just one answer.