by RubyUnicorn

Created on: November 12, 2008   Last Updated: December 19, 2008

No, suicide is not an unforgivable sin. I will outline the reasons why I feel this way. Over the years, we have learned that people, who do commit this horrible deed, have been found to have been clinically depressed. If anyone has ever been diagnosed as "depressed" knows just how difficult life becomes. As though life in and of itself is not difficult enough, add depression to this and it become unbearable. I have suffered through so much in my life over the past 7 years that most would have given up; everyone is so very different in their make up. I have support from family and friends, which has helped me tremendously to over come a lot. There are people out there though, who just feel completely alone. They are so very distraught that they can not mentally understand that there are people here to help them. Can you even begin to imagine just how tremendously confused these poor people must feel? I do not think that there is any person alive who can completely dismiss suicide as just weak if they really take a look at what was going on in that person's life at that very time. I write from experience unfortunately.

I am engaged to a wonderful man, who has three beautiful daughters. He is a widower, and raised those three girls alone. He did the best that he could. The youngest of the girls was only 8 years old when her mother passed away from injuries from a car accident. She had the hardest time accepting what had happened mostly due to her tender age. As she was growing up and going through those confusing teenage years, she had experienced a lot of emotional turmoil. She was eventually diagnosed as being manic depressant, and possibly bi-polar. The problem was that she did not believe her diagnosis and refused treatment after a while. One cold December day of 2007, December 20th to be exact, her sister came running into our house screaming that her sister was dead and that her boyfriend had killed her. She was only 19 years old and had her life ahead of her. Of course, we had found out that her boyfriend did not kill her, but what had happened is that her and her boyfriend had a fight. She apparently had felt completely alone, helpless, and hopeless. Even though her life was about to change, she was supposed to leave for Air Force boot camp in three weeks. She had told us repeatedly how excited she was to get started on her new career. To this day, we do not understand what happened that was so horrible to make her feel she had nothing to live for. She

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