I have given a little blurt from each site to give you an idea what the site has to offer. As I find more helpful sites I will post them here, I truly hope one of these sites can help you understand Suicide is not crime.
The Bible warns us not to judge, if we ourselves hope to escape judgment. And I believe that this is the one area that Biblical command especially should be heeded. For how do we know how many valiant battles such a person may have fought and won before he loses that one particular battle? And is it fair that all the good acts and impulses of such a person should be forgotten or blotted out by his final tragic act? I think our reaction should be one of love and pity, not of condemnation.
Suicide Is The Most Misunderstood Of All Deaths
First of all, at this time in our history, for all kinds of reasons, suicide is still perhaps the most misunderstood of all deaths. We still tend to think that because it is self-inflicted it is voluntary in a way that death through physical illness or accident is not.
For most suicides, this is not true. A person dying of suicide, dies, as does the victim of physical illness or accident, against his or her will. People die from physical heart attacks, strokes, cancer, AIDS and accidents. Death by suicide is the same, except that we are dealing with an emotional heart attack, an emotional stroke, emotional AIDS, emotional cancer and an emotional fatality ...
We invite you to meet and hear from some courageous, beautiful people who have allowed us into their deepest moments of despair, grief, pain and finally hope as they cope with the aftermath of suicide.
Our hope is that if you are a suicide survivor reading this web site, you will find helpful information and comfort in knowing that others have walked a similar journey ...
And we ache for the arms of a loved one of a time too short lived and of questions left more piercing than a knife. Oh, the questions come hauntingly, pressing your mind, when a loved one takes their own life.
Our hope is that survivors will find strength in the stories of others and, most importantly, recognize that we are not alone.
Chasing Death attempts to put honest, but heartrending words to the often incommunicable pain that suicide survivors endure, not only through the telling of Kristian’s story, but through the stories of other parents mourning the loss of children who have killed themselves. It will also be an enlightening resource for anyone who knows of someone who has experienced the loss of a child to suicide, by helping them to respond more appropriately - and less insensitively - to the suicide survivor’s grief.
How to Talk About Suicide to Children
Suicide is probably the most traumatic of all child losses. Suicide leaves behind many unanswered questions, as well as many fears. Adults caught up in the tremendous pain of suicide often are not aware of the impact a suicide has on the children who are left behind.
