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Understanding Suicide
In the years that I have been writing this column, I have on three or four occasions done an article on suicide. Each of those columns prompted a flood of
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Suicide, Despair and Compassion
It’s been a bad spring; not for weather, but for suicides. Warm restless winds have stirred both nature and the human spirit and for some it’s been more than they
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Unfinished Business and the Communion of Saints
When I was growing up, as part of our family prayer we used to pray for a happy death. In my young mind, I had a certain conception of what
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Storms We Cannot Weather
In the musical Les Miserables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness life can deal a person. Abandoned by her
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Myrrh – The Unwanted Gift
In the Gospels we find the story of the three Magi, coming from the East and laying their gifts at the crib of the newborn Jesus. The gifts were not
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An Unnatural Wound
Few things in life are as difficult as the death of a young person, particularly one’s own child. There are many mothers and fathers, with broken hearts, having lost a
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What To Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do
What do you do when a wound or a loss leaves you hopelessly disconsolate and there’s nothing you can do to amend the situation? As well, what do you do
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Lighter Thoughts on a Heavy Subject
Some years ago, a friend was facing the birth of her first child. While happy that she was soon to be a mother, she confessed openly her fears about the
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Reindeer Games
I hate crowds, at least most of them. I’m okay at football games, where a crowd has bracketed its sanity for a couple of hours for a cathartic release. But
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Love Beyond Death
Gilbert K. Chesterton once stated that Christianity is the only democracy where even the dead get to vote. In light of that, I share two stories. A psychologist at a