This past weekend has been unique – to say the least. The holidays were usually an uneventful time compared to everyone else’s extravagant cabin vacations and huge families. Thanksgiving was spent as normal, a meal with my immediate family. The next few days went as predicted – slow, boring, full of chores. Then my oldest…
According to Freud all suicides contemplate both a wish to die, to express a pressure to self-destruction that cannot be worked through, and the intent to harm anyone the suicidal person thinks has caused the unbearable pain leading them to self-imposed death. In general, those who kill themselves rarely wish to stop living: more often…