by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 28, 2018 |
Understanding Survivors of Suicide Loss Suicide, however, has been described as a death like no other … and it truly is. Death by suicide stuns with soul-crushing surprise, leaving family and friends not only grieving the unexpected death, but confused and lost...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 24, 2018 |
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide “Suicide,” writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, “has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out.” Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 23, 2018 |
BEARING THE SPECIAL GRIEF OF SUICIDE The suicide of someone you care about is a devastating tragedy. It happens in the best of families and to the best of people, shattering the lives of the shocked...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 23, 2018 |
Two Years Later … Still on the Journey On December 2, 2010, the man I loved to distraction sent a text message to three people saying that life was too difficult. He turned off his phone, went out on the front porch and shot himself....
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 22, 2018 |
Drugs, Alcohol, Suicide Killing More Americans Than Ever “Despair deaths” from drugs, alcohol and suicide have reached new peaks in the U.S. and are not just killing whites, but spiking in communities of color, as well, according to a new report released Thursday....
