Category: Suicide

  • Working Ourselves to Death

    Working Ourselves to Death

    On May 4th, a teenager, Arlana Miller died by suicide after posting a note on Instagram. I learned about it from a video of my cousin tearful and shaken asking people to check on one another, and most especially the strong people in out lives who we tend to forget about because we think that…

  • Those Who Lose Their Lives…

    Those Who Lose Their Lives…

    Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me…

  • Ghosts of Suicide

    Ghosts of Suicide

    I am not one of those people who believes that people ever get over the traumas that happen in their lives. Rather, I believe that we either learn to live with them or we expand to leverage them. In my own life, I can admit that I  have never gotten over anything in the conventional…