I read an article on middle age suicides and how the number has increased by 50% in ten years. That’s me! That’s where I am as far as age, but what drives a person to end his life? In my nonprofessional opinion I think it is failure and the inability to recover from it. I don’t care it is the loss of a long time job, family problems, or repossession of a home. Failure brings depression, which leads to the feeling of having no value to anyone, not even yourself. This is a downward death spiral that can make you believe the only out is taking your own life so that you won’t be a burden on your family.
I had two employees commit suicide and I could not understand why. Both had families, reasonable incomes and, I assumed, friends. I wondered what I did wrong. Why didn’t I see these deaths coming? This was before the downturn in the economy and the housing bubble. Most of my friends and I agree that we don’t want to be living if all we can do is be rolled onto the porch or deck for the day and rolled back in at night. To me that is a different kind of suicide. The best thing we all can do is create jobs and get this economy back on track so people feel valued. Otherwise this trend may also affect younger adults too.
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