I was just reading an article, which was both surprising and sadly disturbing.
On Monday, February 13, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States released a report on the mental health of U.S. teens. It noted that over 40 percent of high school students...
Compared to much of the developed world, America is a murderous country. The United Nations estimates the U.S. homicide rate is three times that of Canada, five of France, 26 of Japan. According to some studies, there are more guns in America today than there are people.
But if Americans often...
In 2020, 3,129 people committed suicide in Australia. In America 44,834 people ended their own life in 2020. If you know someone who is contemplating suicide, this article from JW.ORG may help them.
The Bible’s answer
Yes! The Bible comes from “God, who comforts those who are downhearted.”...
I wish to share my philosophy, which is based upon my personal experience/struggles. Many people might disagree with it, but I wish to share it anyway. It's the pdf file below. In this file, I discuss my personal struggles later on, and what conclusion they've led me to. Anyway, here's the file:
The Days of Distress are coming to their end...
Are the stormy waves of distress about to over take you? Feel like giving up? Tired of being tired? Hang on! Help is on the way! You can win this fight by choosing to keep on living. There is something you really need to know. The day of distress...
Do you feel that you can't go on?
There are times when we have felt that today would be our last, thinking tomorrow would never come. Anxieties of Life can weigh heavy on our Mental Health. Would you believe that you can find the Answers in the Bible to WHY you feel the way you do?
Would...
Legitimate question here, and an interesting one for Catholics in particular to address (since they deem it an unforgivable sin).
First I'll post a common definition of suicide for arguments sake:
noun
1 the intentional taking of one's own life.
2 destruction of one's own interests or...
Case in study some 2000 years ago in Jerusalem,please.
Is it a sin,please?
or it is no sin,please.
First to define as to what one understands from the word "suicide", one's own understanding, not from a lexicon,please.
Thread open to everybody of religion or no religion, absolutely no...
This is my body. I am not suicidal. If I were paralyzed or terminally ill. Forcing someone to be alive in those two situations that does not want to be is cruel and unusual punishment.
Something that has been bugging me as of lately is this constant rejection amongst conservatives of suicide which I just do not understand at all. Many conservatives push against not just suicide but the movement to have assisted suicide a federally protected practice. Many of them compare it to...