Suicide: *the subject of last week’s poem about a woman attempting to commit this act, and her rescue.
Someone once said: “Suicide is a permanent response to a temporary issue.”
How heart-rending to end life when hope is out of sight, but just around the corner.
Most of us will not encounter someone trying to jump off a bridge. But we do meet people who may be feeling like doing something that desperate. However, they may appear to have it “all together.”
Let’s assume that people we meet have hurts below the surface of their smiles. The main antidote we can offer is kindness. Ralph Waldo Emerson said “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
And in the words of Mother Teresa: “Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier. Be a living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
*Many words ending in “cide” refer to types of killing, such as: homicide, infanticide, pesticide, patricide, genocide etc.
Suicide is from the Latin “sui” meaning “of oneself” and cidium “a killing.”
