Suicide - General

by: Jerry Price - Nov 1, 2006 - comment

“Suicide is such a waste—a waste of life, of opportunity. This is the element that keeps recurring for those who are left behind: this death did not have to happen. The entire experience seems so wrong, so pointless, so lacking in logic.

“A person who kills himself wastes his future and even his past—all that has been given to him, or invested in him, or that he has gained on his own. Nothing of benefit, it seems, can flow from a life deliberately ended prematurely.”

Mary Langford, That Nothing Be Wasted (Birmingham: New Hope, 1988), 38.

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