Is dark tourism a sign of moral decay or a more advanced form of mercy and respect for human life?

 We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther

    Nowadays a lot of people face the problem of dark tourism. By this we mean, that a person deliberately decides to kill oneself under the influence of different factors. Some people consider suicide to be the only way out, but other ones, totally, disagree with this. Well, we may say that there are two sides of the medal.

So, is dark tourism a sign of moral decay or a more advanced of mercy and respect for human life?

To answer this question, we should say that there are two main forms of suicide tourism: the first one is when someone travels at a prominent landmark to kill oneself in order to become famous, because their death can attract mass media attention. The second one is quite a different thing. The people who want to commit suicide are very ill, mentally or physically, or old so they do not have to suffer any more. Euthanasia - is the only kind of death tourism.

However, it should be mentioned that committing suicide is a psychological problem. On the one hand, there are people who realize this problem and go on struggling with it,  and on the other hand, there are those  who just give up and decay morally. That is why many things depend on will power and the person’s character. Certainly, there are factors which cannot be changed, thus, for example, there are people whose living level is lower than an average person has. And in case of emergency they cannot effort treatment in expensive hospitals. Therefore, the only way out is to be treated in an ordinary clinic, where there is not always enough painkillers. And just imagine, what unbearable pain they have to go through. And this is something not everyone can do, believe me. In these cases the only way they can think of is travelling to a country where killing themselves by doctors is legal. Most of these dark-tourists visit such countries as Cambodia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and so on.

Nevertheless, do they appreciate their life in such a way? The Church states that any kind of suicide is forbidden and no one has right to deprive of his or her  life. Except for God, because He gifted it. That is why the Church says: it is not impossibilities that fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

It  should also be mentioned that euthanasia is not only depriving oneself of physical pain, but also excusing one’s deeds towards oneself, hence the person transfers the responsibility for his or her death on other peoples’ shoulders.

But you cannot get away with just physical treatment in such situations. The in-time aid of psychologists, who can convince the person in not making the wrong decision, and who can support him or her at the most necessary moments, is needed here.

The formation of the successful goal depends on emotional field. The scientists have known it for a long time, that if you tell yourself at least one time: “I’m healthy”, then the way one feels is getting better, the general state improves, and the progress is observed. And if such a mood is maintained with the support of relatives and the assistance of the psychologist, then this brings the ill person closer to desired recovery, or making the right decision.

         Personally I consider  dark tourism is not the way out of any sort of problems, because it certainly shows that the person is broken down and decayed morally. Actually I can assert that he or she lets down and stops appreciating his or her life, and the hope disappears. And when the person has no hope he or she is doomed.