THE VILLAGE GIRL WHO KILLED HERSELF: QUESTIONS ABOUT FAITH AND GOD AS CREATOR AND TAKER OF LIFE

A GIRL'S WATERY DEATH. THE main canal of the Magat River Irrigation System that originates in Aguinaldo, Ramon, Isabela. It is further down the canal that a 21-year old girl , jilted by her Laguna  lover for her best friend,  jumped to her death on  Sunday night  From her village of Ambatali, her body was carried away by the cold waters  to several irrigation drops, crossed several bridges, passed below a highway in Santiago City then to a siphon structure in a river below a bridge in Cabulay village, passed another village until  Malapat in Cordon town, 18 kilometers away, where farmers found it floating on the irrigation waters. Text and photo by Peter La. Julian

Who gave her authority to kill herself? Isn't God in her who would have told her that what she was planning to do to herself  was wrong, and that He alone is the taker of life?/ A member of an Ilokano writing group ponders questions on faith and the mystery of the human condition in an article in a forthcoming issue of Timpuyog Journal.