books about: suicide     books:       Suicide: The Forever Decision Paul G. Quinnett The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992 For those thinking about suicide, and for those who know, love, or counsel them, this book discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help.             Suicide Note Teresa Mummert CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013 New York Times  and USA Today Bestselling Novel    Sometimes in life it feels like everything that can go wrong does, but everything happens for a reason.  A relationship crumbles so someone else can mend the pieces of your broken heart.  A change of plans can lead you to something you didn't even know you were missing. We help others and discover that it was us who needed to be helped all along.  Jenn's life is nothing as she ...             Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide Beverly Cobain, Jean Larch Hazelden, 2005 Honest, gentle advice for those who have survived an unspeakable loss—the suicide of a loved one. Transforming suffering into strength, misconceptions into understanding, and shame into dignity, Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through the dangerous silence and stigma surrounding suicide to bring readers this much-needed book. Cobain’s achingly honest account of dealing with the suicide of a loved one, along with personal stories from ...             When Darkness Comes: Saying "No" to Suicide Angerona S. Love Insight Solutions, LLC, 2010 Delve inside the suicidal mind with a raw and naked look at Angerona Love's struggle to stay alive after the fatal suicide of her fiancé. Love has broken the stigma with an insightful perspective of ways she stayed alive when her own mind relentlessly wanted to kill her. Helpful for people considering suicide, the people who love them, and mental health professionals, When Darkness Comes provides increased understanding into the mind of ...             Methods of Suicide Sascha von Bornheim CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011 'Methods of Suicide' aims to educate and entertain -well, mostly entertain- the reader while analyzing the methods available to those who wish to end their lives. It neither condones nor condemns suicide. The author assumes no liability for any injuries or death. You are responsible for your own behavior. Chapters include: - Poisoning! - Cars! - Trains! - Electrocution! - Seppuku! and many more... 'Methods of Suicide' has been ...             How to Commit Suicide, 2012 The first time she got on the internet was to search for how to do it and make it look accidental. What she found changed her path forever. This short story is dedicated to all who have lost a loved one to depression, and published in the hope that it will prevent a tragedy.             Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Kay Redfield Jamison Vintage, 2000 From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of ...             Suicide Emile Durkheim Free Press, 1997 One of Durkheim's most important works, serving as a model in social theory.             Why People Die by Suicide Thomas Joiner Harvard University Press, 2007 In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die. Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas ...             No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One Carla Fine Three Rivers Press, 1999 Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful young physician, took his own life in December 1989. And being unable to speak openly and honestly ...             Suicide (French Literature Series) Edouard Levé Dalkey Archive Press, 2011 Edouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide , just a few days before he took his own life. Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, ...             Myths about Suicide Thomas Joiner Harvard University Press, 2011 Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones—and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate understanding of a massive international killer. Drawing on a fascinating array of clinical cases, media reports, literary works, and scientific studies, ...             How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention Susan Rose Blauner William Morrow Paperbacks, 2003 The statistics on suicide are staggering. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1997 in the USA more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease combined. It is also an international epidemic. Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people. ...             To Whom It May Concern: A Short Story, 2012 Anti-hero Victor Bryson is deeply disturbed and very possibly a plagiarizing, pathological liar. This short story follows Victor's bad day, bad week, bad life--a picture of downtrodden youth today. Darkly comedic with biting sarcasm towards the absurdity of society, Piper Downs proves even the worst possible life may just be a cosmic practical joke. This experimental story at about 5,500 words might just hit the mark with readers looking for a ...             Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? Jon Klimo, Pamela Heath CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2006 This provocative study explores what happens to those who commit suicide. Drawing on communications from the spirits of more than 100 'successful' suicides, it offers an intriguing look at what the dead themselves say about suicide, its repercussions, and their experiences in the afterlife. Bringing together the channeled messages of three types of suicide—traditional suicide, assisted suicide, and the suicide mass murder adopted by ...             Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers and Hope Albert Y. Hsu IVP Books, 2002 A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards! Every seventeen minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. It is one of the most serious public health crises of modern times, claiming over one million lives worldwide every year. Those who have lost a loved one to suicide experience tremendous shock and trauma, with a confusing mix of emotions--anger, guilt, grief and despair. Suicide also raises heartrending ...             Suicide Notes Michael Thomas Ford HarperTeen, 2010 Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year’s Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Never mind the bandages on his wrists, clearly this is all a huge mistake. Jeff is perfectly fine, perfectly normal—not like the other kids in the hospital with him. They’ve got problems. But a funny thing happens as Jeff’s forty-five-day sentence drags on: the crazies start to seem less crazy. . . . ...             Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007 "Silent Grief" is a book for and about "suicide survivors" - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself - several members of his family have taken their own lives - and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a ...             This is How it Feels: A Memoir - Attempting Suicide and Finding Life Craig A Miller CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012 At twenty-years-old, Craig Miller attempted suicide. He sat on the edge of a bed and swallowed two hundred and fifty pills, never imagining that a note he wrote to himself fourteen years earlier would save his life. That note simply read, "Don't ever forget how this feels." From the time he was six-years-old, Craig lived his life by those words. He believed that if he needed to remember the feelings behind his life's most significant ...             Would you remember ME, 2011 Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and teenagers. In this short story, the writer is fifteen years old, contemplating suicide. In her darkest hour she writes a letter. "I am so unimaginably sorry for doing what I am going to do, but you see I have all these fears. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are. Sometimes, I am sad and so bitterly lonely and ...              search for books afterlife, answers, attempting, comfort, concern, darkness, decision, families, finding, forever, french, goodbye, grieving, happens, healing, literature, living, methods, people, person, prevention, really, remember, search, series, stayed, suicide, surviving, trying, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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