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To: Psalm 144
Actually, very commonly.

Muscular dystrophy, drug resistant tuberculosis, terminal cancer, and other incurable ailments.

Among people who suffer chronic sexual abuse as children, suicide is second only to overdose as a cause of death (and these two are followed in turn by eating disorders.) That isn't just depression, its an escape from flashbacks and memories.

Suicide is not God's plan. It is not God's best.
But for some people, it is merely hurrying the only relief that will ever come absent a miracle from God.

Is it wrong? Yes.
It is also understandable.

26 posted on 01/27/2012 3:22:54 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

Among people who suffer chronic sexual abuse as children, suicide is second only to overdose as a cause of death (and these two are followed in turn by eating disorders.) That isn’t just depression, its an escape from flashbacks and memories.
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Most overdoses are suicides.


50 posted on 01/27/2012 4:56:35 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: MrEdd; Psalm 144; Chickensoup
Among people who suffer chronic sexual abuse as children, suicide is second only to overdose as a cause of death (and these two are followed in turn by eating disorders.) That isn't just depression, its an escape from flashbacks and memories.

Sexual abuse destroys a child's ability to hope and see a future.

74 posted on 01/27/2012 7:31:09 PM PST by thecodont
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