Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation 2015

DNF @ Ep. 06

It wasn't bad per se. Sakurako, I like as a character. She's interesting to me. Some things were cringy, especially that whole putting on gloves while saying a crappy signature line scene that happens every episode only for her not to touch anything at all. Utsumi and Shoutaro exist to be insufferable, look stupid and repeat the same lines over and over. That said, it's not like the little mysteries were the worst I've seen and the art was done well enough for my tastes. However, it wasn't that good enough that I could tolerate its flaws to completion.

The deciding factor to my growing list of reasons for dropping it was after continually being infuriated during Episode 06, where they constantly push their own ideals on suicide and death, a topic about which I clearly have my own ruminations concerning. Hard as it may be for a topic I have always been sensitive about due to my own experiences and of those around me, I try to remain objective, consider the variables and perspectives that come into play, but at this moment, these are my thoughts (that may change as I mature, who knows?). Sensei said some very blunt but accurate things about suicide that most immature, self-righteous, selfish people won't like to hear, but he was right for the most part. Who are you to force someone to live? Who are you to say someone else's life and pain is worth enduring? Who are you to deny someone their reprieve and desire? Who are you to only care about those left behind (if there even are any, cause not everyone has anyone around them), and not the person seriously thinking that suicide might be their best choice? If they want to follow someone to the supposed afterlife, who are you to say it's not what the dead person would have wanted?

Now I get wanting to save a person's life. There are many people who are impulsive or in the wrong mindset at a certain time, and even more who might live to see life had something worth living for and that their pain and sufferings could ebb away with time. There a situations that could be made even worse with suicide being the wrong choice for their intentions. There are all kinds of circumstances. However, not everyone deserves to know of those circumstances and it's NEVER for a third party to decide if someone else's pain is worth bearing or not. Everyone has the right to live and the right to die. I think both should be made with logic and a sound mind, and with one's own wellbeing in mind. No stranger should get to project their own pretentious selfish feelings into that decision with themselves. It's disgusting. Get off your high horse and so-called moral ground.

That girl saying she hated Sensei for saying seemingly heartless, unempathetic things seemed very unempathetic to me. She chose whose shoes to put herself in, and insinuated herself in a situation where she could have made the person considering suicide feel even more pain or illogical. Utsumi is a grown man saying people don't have a choice in living or dying and that my friend, is an idiot who's probably against abortion as well. I can excuse the kid her immaturity and selfish feelings after the recent finding of her dead grandmother, but as a police officer who should have seen things by now, his brain could not have possibly gotten him into law enforcement. He's clearly not fit to reflect on philosophy and what it is that truly makes us human either. It is true that all suicide does is transfer your pain to the ones left behind, but who are you to fault them and say they're wrong? You're not them.