While I enjoyed a lifestyle thirty years in the making, my kids’ generation seemed to be opting out of life rather than realizing their own dreams. Three young men known within my family’s circle chose suicide over existence. Why?

"And why do you think you chose to end your life Violet?" the hospital psychiatrist asked calmly, legs crossed, pen poised over his notebook as he sat in a low chair next to the hospital bed.

While many of us suffer from depression, anxiety, and a wealth of other mental health issues, it is important to remember that help is available to us at all times. There is currently a video of a military veteran committing suicide on a Facebook Livestream that is storming the internet and social media. The video ...

***Trigger Warning*** The following deals with Suicide. Wake up, dollface. It’s time to start a new day. The world needs you, and your pressure will go away soon. Wake up and plaster the made-up smile onto your face. They need to see it. They need to know that you’re okay. You’re always okay; your smile ...

Trigger Warning: The following deals with death and suicide. The snow powdered the ground as Elaine unlocked the front door and pushed it open. The creak of the hinges echoed in the empty home. She closed the white steel door and latched it. When she spun around, the thudding of rocks hitting the door and the ...

****************************TRIGGER WARNING************************* Character takes his own life in one scene Part 1  /  Part 2  /  Part 3  /  Part 4  /  Part 5  /  Part 6  / Part 7 / Part 8 I laid in bed and bed and thought about my character in my novel.  He was only exonerated after he killed himself.  I tossed ...

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes is one of my favorite books, even though I hate how it ends. The novel focuses on the topic of suicide, and is about an adventurous, rich man named Will Traynor who ends up becoming a quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident. He struggles with accepting the challenges of being ...

A lot of folks are really angry about people making posts via social media that encourage reaching out for help, and providing resources such as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Crisis Text Line. While I agree that we need to check in on our loved ones when we think they may be struggling, some ...

***Trigger Warning: Article Contains Suicide and Drug Use*** On April 25, 1989, at 5:17 a.m., my father placed a handgun in his mouth, pulled the trigger, and ended his life. He was forty-five years old. His forty-sixth birthday was only twenty-three days away. My younger brother’s thirteenth birthday was only five days away. Unlike some ...

Physician-assisted suicide is only legal in a handful of states, and most of society seems to be firmly opposed to allowing an individual the right to make decisions concerning when and how their life should end. Regardless of the symptoms that the ill person is having, how much they are suffering, or how deteriorated their ...