Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community.

Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths that author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful young physician, took his own life in December 1989. And being unable to speak openly and honestly...

"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 47,500 people killed themselves in in the US in 2019, which is about one death every eleven minutes. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The shock of it and immediacy of the grief makes a suicidal death different from many other deaths people can experience."--

A woman on a suicide run kicks her abused son out of the car. The little boy, apparently mute, is an artistic prodigy who excels at chess.

"At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. And now they must come together to stop...

Este libro consiste en una reflexión filosófica sobre el problema del suicidio. Se trata de una reflexión mediante la cual se espera brindar elementos que ayuden en nuestra comprensión del fenómeno de la muerte voluntaria, desde una perspectiva distinta a las tradicionales. Razón por la cual se habla de esta práctica no en términos antropológicos o sociales, sino fundamentalmente morales. Es decir, el suicidio visto como un fenómeno moral,...

In every age of the world and in the history of almost every country, we find instances, more or less numerous, of men and women who, preferring the dim uncertainty of the future to the painful realities of the present, have sought relief from all their troubles by suddenly terminating their own existence. Misery and pain have been the lot of the human race ever since the dawn of history, and these causes have from the earliest times induced persons...

When a child is born they're a blank canvas. A canvas that is later moulded by the influences of the world around them. Those influences determine that child's future, but they are not always kind. Some of those children will enter adulthood easily, unscathed by the harshness of life, but for others, that journey is not an easy path to follow.And then there are those, who's journey's are cut short.He only ever wanted ….. to fit in. He only ever...

Includes discussion questions (pages 245-246). "After surviving a suicide attempt, Addison returns to school where her life intersects with four other students, each of whom are also struggling with their own personal struggles"--