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Suicide

I read this on another person's website and it really hit home for me. It's so true you guys, please take the time to read it and pass it along if you know of someone you think could use it. Here it is.


I don't know you, and you don't me. And I am not going to sit here and pretend to understand all that you are going through, because I don't. But, I care. And here is why NOT suicide:

Because I love you
Because you deserve to live
Because your life has value, whether or not you can see it
Because it was not your fault
Because I care
Because there are others that love you, whether you realise it or not
Because life itself is precious
Because YOU are precious
Because you are connected to each and every other person, and so your daily battle automatically gives others hope and strength
Because you will feel better, eventually
Because each time you confront despair you get stronger
Because you deserve a beautiful life
Because if you die today you will never again feel love for another human being, or trust, or gratitude
Because you will never again see kindness and compassion in another's eyes
Because if you die today you will never again see sunlight pouring through the leaves of a tree, or a bird take flight, or feel the quality of light in winter
Because the seconds do not cease their passing, because even if it feels like time has become an unbearably heavy stone, it has not, and you only have to endure
Because you have already won .. you have known the cleverness and resiliency and courage and stubborn will to make it this far, and no one can take that away
Because the will to live is not a cruel punishment, even if it feels like that at times: it is a priceless gift
Because we need more warriors against evil
Because you are a child of God
Because no one knows better than you the meaning of suffering, and the agony deepens the heart
Because you deserve the peace that will come after the battle is won, and it will be won, but only minute by minute - we must learn to let go of the unconquerable
Because we can all come together in later years to laugh in your demons faces
Because it is critical that you survive
Because I love you

"...No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be,
No more turning away?"
---Pink Floyd, On the Turning Away

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