Prevent Sucide Now

Written by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons).


Prevent Suicide Now

A website called Prevent Suicide Now.Com recently came to my attention by chance. I almost sent it back into cyber obscurity with a mouse click as it seemed unlikely to be of any interest or use to me in my carefree home business programme.

My first thought was that a website dedicated to suicide must be macabre. However, a tour ofrepparttar website revealed that a great deal of loving work had gone into its creation. The site’s purpose is to prevent suicide and raise public awareness ofrepparttar 116489 subject. In America alone over 31,000 lives ended in 2002 as a result of suicide. That is one suicide every sixteen and a half minutes. Trends showrepparttar 116490 suicide rate to be increasing.

There is a touching remembrance section onrepparttar 116491 site. The first memorial onrepparttar 116492 "wall of angels" is to a little girl aged 13 who was driven to suicide by school bullies. I could hardly bear to look atrepparttar 116493 photographs ofrepparttar 116494 other beautiful, bright children who became "angels" in their teenage years. Inrepparttar 116495 year 2002 in America a total of 4,010 people belowrepparttar 116496 age of 24 committed suicide. That equates to 11 young lives destroyed each day. Suicide isrepparttar 116497 third leading cause of death inrepparttar 116498 15-24 age group.

Suicide is a subject which most of us would wish to avoid. We would rather not think about it, let alone discuss it. We are uncomfortable when dealing with people who have been bereaved through suicide and feel helpless when somebody we know is tormented by suicidal thoughts.

Our reluctance to contemplaterepparttar 116499 issue of suicide is understandable. It is painful and we don’t want to be reminded of our own mortality, but we would be better equipped to deal withrepparttar 116500 issue if we were brave enough to face suicide and become familiar with its features. The ability to recogniserepparttar 116501 enemy would give us a better chance of knowing when help should be sought.

Seeingrepparttar 116502 photographs ofrepparttar 116503 young suicide victims reminded me of two young women I used to know but had not thought of for some time. I was friends with both these women but they never met each other. Their lives, however, strangely paralleled each other for a while when they reachedrepparttar 116504 age of 25.

My friend Janet had been engaged for two years and was looking forward to a traditional white wedding. The wedding dress and cake had been made andrepparttar 116505 big day was only two weeks inrepparttar 116506 future when her fiancé abruptly broke offrepparttar 116507 engagement. She was quietly devastated. Janet was a warm person with a wonderful sense of humour but she was not a pretty girl – not ugly – just not a head turner and she was rather shy. Being jilted shattered her self-confidence and she suffered through several lonely years before finding another boyfriend. He treated her abysmally but she felt that it was better to put up with his behaviour than to facerepparttar 116508 loneliness of being single. By then Janet was approachingrepparttar 116509 dreaded 30th birthday and felt like everybody else inrepparttar 116510 world was married. I was relieved when she finally foundrepparttar 116511 courage to end that relationship.

From NO money and NO ideas to Success

Written by Michael A. Domeck


What would you do if suddenly, and without warning, your world came crashing down around you?

One day you have a good job, a nice home and good health – so you think. Then you go torepparttar Doctor to find out why your indigestion keeps getting worse and why you’re so tired allrepparttar 116488 time. You just kept thinking that you were working to hard and probably way too many hours – which you were just to keep your job.

Then you find out you have to have a multiple bypass operation on your heart. You have 90% blockages in two arteries and 50% blockage in three more arteries. After you pick yourself up offrepparttar 116489 floor from that good news and let it sink in.

You think, well I better call my boss and tell him I want be in for a couple of months. So you call and tell him what is going on and ask for some time off, without pay of course. As you will needrepparttar 116490 time forrepparttar 116491 operation and recovery period.

Well your Boss is all so very understanding and says he hopes you get to feeling better, etc. Then you getrepparttar 116492 -- “Oh byrepparttar 116493 way” speech. He proceeds to tell you – “Our company policy is that if you can’t work when, where and how we tell you to work then we don’t need you -- So you’re fired and good luck”!

Now that really gets you inrepparttar 116494 right frame of mind to be going into surgery, doesn’t it?

Well you DO haverepparttar 116495 best Doctor in three states and you come throughrepparttar 116496 surgery great. Then they move you fromrepparttar 116497 Cardiac Care Unit to your room for a few more days of recovery before they send you home. Everything with your surgery has gone great but now you start worrying about allrepparttar 116498 bills and finding another job, etc.

Allrepparttar 116499 worry starts hampering your recovery andrepparttar 116500 Doctor tells you -- “Let’s get you well and then you’ll be able to find yourself another good job”! But you have to get well first.

Up until now you thought things were starting to look rather burdensome until “IT” happens to you. Everything up until now has just been warming you up forrepparttar 116501 final blow. Your wife is onrepparttar 116502 way back torepparttar 116503 hospital, to stay with you forrepparttar 116504 evening, when she gets a call fromrepparttar 116505 neighbors. They tell her “you need to get back to your house ASAP”!

When she gets thererepparttar 116506 house is in flames andrepparttar 116507 firemen are busy trying to save what’s left. They manage to get a couple things out and a few pictures – but that’s it. Thenrepparttar 116508 neighbor’s remember they haven’t seen your puppy. He’s like your child sincerepparttar 116509 children have all grown up and moved off and he is allrepparttar 116510 two of you have left. The firemen race back intorepparttar 116511 house and save him. But within a few hours he succumbs to smoke inhalation complications and dies.

Now your wife knows she can’t call you and tell yourepparttar 116512 house, your car, your new boat and your classic Chevrolet you had spent 10 years restoring all just went up in smoke. So she calls and says she needs to get some rest because she is so tired and she is afraid she is “coming down” with something.

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