I wasn’t going to do it, but this article I read just infuses me to write about the death of Robbin Williams. The article’s title is “Suicide is not selfish”. Really? here is an ecerpt from that article.
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“Suicide is a decision made out of desperation, hopelessness, isolation and loneliness. The black hole that is clinical depression is all-consuming. Feeling like a burden to loved ones, feeling like there is no way out, feeling trapped and feeling isolated are all common among people who suffer from depression.
People who say that suicide is selfish always reference the survivors. It’s selfish to leave children, spouses and other family members behind, so they say. They’re not thinking about the survivors, or so they would have us believe. What they don’t know is that those very loved ones are the reason many people hang on for just one more day. They do think about the survivors, probably up until the very last moment in many cases. But the soul-crushing depression that envelops them leaves them feeling like there is no alternative. Like the only way to get out is to opt out. And that is a devastating thought to endure.”

from Katie Hurley, The blog listed on the Huff
Post women. 08/13/14

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How sad it is to hear that yet another Hollywood Star took their life. The world as they see life is very grim. For most people, they are always searching for something, but can never find it. They try drugs, sex, alcohol but whatever they do, they cannot fill that empty void in their life. Suicide is selfish. I think it is just about the most selfish thing you can do. You are only thinking about yourself, wallouring around in your self pitty, all the time thinking why me, poor me, nobody cares about me. Yes, it is very sad that the world is so wrapped up in themselves that they can’t think of anyone else. I know about clinical depression and all that is involved, but there is an answer and there is a cure.

Christ is that answer and the cure. When God created man, He created us in His likeness which means, there is a spirit our soul that yearns to be with and know God. Every one has it, but we have to make a physical and mental choice to accept that yearning. God wants us to make the choice to know Him. Once we have accepted Him, our sin is washed away with our old nature, and we become a new creature and our soul’s yearning is filled. That empty spot is no longer there. If we are striving everyday to be more like Christ, our mind and spirit is filled with thoughts of goodness and love. Read Phillippians 4:8.

To take one’s own life is playing God. Who are we that should decide to live of die? Only God has the right to say our work is done on earth and call us home. There is no one more that needs God, than the one who is thinking of ending their life. I will lift up my prayers to the Williams family for strength in the coming days and pray that they will find God in this tragedy.