Goblin

The Korean drama series called Goblin has ended. It is a very nice drama. Aside from that, I learned that there are at least three kinds of suicide. First is the suicide done by Wang Yeo which made him become a grim reaper. He decided to kill himself using the poison by his prime minister because he felt guilty for following the prime minister advice to give death punishment to his wife and brother in law. This is an obvious suicide.

The other two are not that obvious. Eun Tak was driving and she saw that a truck with faulty brake is rolling into a school bus. She decided to stop in the middle so that her car was the one hit by the truck which at the end caused her to die. She knew she can be safe but she chose to kill herself for the sake of others.

The third one is even hard to notice. Goblin himself did a suicide. He was about to be given death penalty by Wang Yeo. Not sure why, perhaps because of his pride, he asked his soldier to stab him in his heart using his sword, a gift from Wang Yeo. In other word, he chose to die by his own choice rather than being killed by others. A miracle can happen in the last minute but he thought there is no option and he did not want to be killed by Wang Yeo’s men.

From those, I learn that it is not so much of the suicide action itself but rather the motivation behind it that matters. Even Jesus can be considered to take suicide action as He chose to come to this world and died in the cross to save us, sinners, so that we can enjoy and glorify Him forever. On the other hand, it may be other people who took our life like the case of Goblin while it is actually our wrong choice to take our own life instead of surrendering all to God. I still remembered a lesson from the movie of rurouni Kenshin. Kenshin killed so many innocent people in the past that haunt him. So sometimes he did not have the desire to live and thus easily have the tendency to sacrifice himself for others. But the thing is that as long as there is option to be alive with our loved ones, we have to struggle for it and give our best. Back to Goblin’s drama, that’s the lesson both Grim Reaper and Goblin learn: to have the desire of life, to know how precious life is, that life is something to yearn for.