Suicide in the Church 2

In a city the size of mine - about 16,000 - a few suicides within 90 days can be considered an epidemic? I think so.
Many Christians have contacted me from these tragedies have happened, people struggling with and out of suicide and its effect on the eternal reward, among other concerns. They included the wife of one of the youngest victims of suicide. As certified Workplace Chaplain, I have several ministerial posts and guidance materials by mail andA recent article presents some statistics about suicide shocks and its impact on those left behind.

For example, there are 30,000 suicides in America each year, leaving 118 000 survivors per year. Currently, there are 4.5 million survivors in the United States, lives alone. There are 750,000 emergency room treatments per year due to suicide attempts. A third of all Jr. High and High School Kids are considering suicide. 24to 30 children die every day by suicide. every two minutes, someone inU.S. suicide attempts every 18 minutes someone succeeds. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people aged 15-24. Suicide rates increase with age, with the highest rate found among white American men aged 65 years e.

Eighty percent of Christians have left their churches or services has led to join together to stop the change. I remember as a teenager, a woman in our church whose husband had died, as a child, I noticed that I have rarely observedWidow in a conversation with the other members of the church before or after intercourse. Finally, she was gone. There is great ignorance in the church - a feeling of inadequacy - that keeps the average person step and comfort the victims. In fact, they want to talk. Devi. Some are angry at God or angry with the church. You are confused. You are loved, was not killed. No, she chose death, without any regard for the feelings and needs of those who wouldsoon leave behind. Those who claim to cry with the same stages of grief from those on which other types of death, only with greater intensity and in a cycle, which typically continues for a whole year.

Those who actually see the body require counseling and prayer, in an attempt to "stop the movie they see play again in their minds, because they instinctively try to find a different ending. They fight too often with feelings of guilt, sense of failure, anger, rejection, also ... and oftendevastating off the normal coping mechanisms that are alarming "What's wrong with me?" Feelings.

Unfortunately it is very common for a survivor, friends and family to refuse. long-term friendships needed today more than ever, are often separated. Some will be avoided and even guilt of the survivor, openly or subtle accusations. direct family members sometimes turn and accuse one another, and the whole family can change the structures and can not be reconciled.

UnresolvedThe pain can lead to health problems and a few survivors, who are from what is called "graphics issues (had the misfortune to actually see the dead body, often suffer in a terrible state) lead to suicide. Nightmares, loss of sleep, turn the film over and over again, day and night.
support groups are necessarily good. There's an elephant in the living room, we must not - not - to dance. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress due to suicide is assessed at the disaster, which corresponds to the experience of concentration camp!
Often, suicide is considered undesirable, even "dirty". It 's like a cowardly way, seen by many.

There are the survivors among us, to regain his life! Suicide is not something permanent. like any trauma, is a thing of the past, with every second. One can not "build a camp there," as a preacherhe said. After all, the good book says, "'came to pass."

Healing is a process and we need to make its course. In supporting roles, we must not allow the survivors suffer from this process alone. The survivors can not change the final, to re-live the moment. Although you can not erase their memories, they can certainly also be diluted, reduced its paralyzing effects. How? Filling their schedule with service to others and reading positive, uplifting, encouragingLiterature. Work a crossword puzzle. Volunteer. Mind your contribution! Sad Movies are a no-no!

We will never know the answer to every "Why?" Questions, and we must accept that as fact. The fact is - and this is who it was - one day you consider the progress you have made and you will be amazed. were put in the day this nightmare, there were no casualties. They had nothing to say. Choice. The remains of a victim is a choice.

We are humanBE-tions, not human DO-men. You have to learn, a survivor, not just try to survive, while feeling like the living dead. As a survivor, said: "You can do this. It 's a fight human resource development, but life is tough, so what's new is not it? Difficult to impossible."

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