If someone were to drink a glass of gramoxone (a popular herbicide), we may reasonably conclude that the person wants to die. We may speculate about their motives, but the consequences of that action are known since it is a common suicide-method in Barbados.
Barbados is a wonderful place to live. The climate is conducive for good human health. The taxpayers provide more than enough money to fund quality public services – everyone who needs help should receive an adequate amount if the funds were properly managed. Of all nations on earth, we should be the least likely to be suicidal and yet we seem to rank high.
SICK NATION.
How is it possible for a country that scores so high on the Human Development Index among nations to have some of the highest incidence-rates of: colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, strokes and diabetes. No one gave us these diseases.
Most who get these diseases die within 10 years and many within five. We know this, yet we persist with choosing lifestyles that we know will likely result in our premature deaths. Eating badly has become a Barbadian tradition – the unhealthier the food, the more likely it will be on the menu. The foreseen result is that the body gets fat, sick and diseased.
Many Barbadians are addicted to paying fast-food restaurants over $20 for tasty unhealthy foods that hasten their final visit to the undertaker – to whom their surviving relatives must pay. They can save about 90% of the cost of fast-food by cooking tasty healthy meals within 30 minutes, but they choose not to.
SUICIDAL NATION.
We have been deceived into ingesting poison as food – because it tastes good. If while eating we were to convulse on the ground in agony, we would likely decide never to eat that type of food again. However, sipping it daily and not feeling the immediate effects deceived us into believing it is not harmful. But it is, and we know it is, but we are now too addicted to care. Since suicide is to die prematurely by our own deliberate actions, we are evidently a suicidal nation.
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