Hi LyinEyes: Excellent post, and I share your disgust for the Watchtower magazine. I am sure that the majority of JW Elders would give a funeral service for a victim of suicide were it not for the Watchtower religion's teachings and policies. Human nature tends to spontaneously do things that are caring, most of the time ... and only questions or holds back when some force like a religious or political authority makes trouble.I have lived with this suicide issue since the late 1980s when my wife became clinically depressed. She made a few attempts on her own life ... and with her I have a constant fear she will one day do it. When she became depressed, at least when we became aware it was a serious medical condition, it was a time when the JWs were more caring about it ... a time when the Watchtower Society was promoting concern, understanding, and non-judgmentalism ... so she received some good support from her JW friends.Then in the early 1990s, cold winds of change started blow toward the attitude of 'no more Mr. Nice guy' as one Circuit Overseer put it to me. Fortunately we were exiting from the religion ... and she was spared this kind of crap from the Watchtower Society ... I for one am glad that we got out when we did ... for it seems that the hard-line mentality of the current leadership is something more than I could have taken. 