To hear of suicide like this is so very sad. I know what the depths of depression can do as I have experienced it first-hand. When they df'd me the first time, I nearly crashed my car head-on into a tree. I remember just pushing down further and further on the accelerator, until I heard horns blowing and then I swerved--nearly crashing anyway. Some other driver saw my irratic behavior and laid on their horn, and I was shocked back to the pain of reality. I really didn't want to die, but I was in so much emotional pain, I wasn't thinking straight. I was only twenty-two at the time.
We had lots of depression in our KH---wives, and young adults mostly. Many were taking anti-depressants and giving them to their kids. A couple of the brothers too. The "truth" as taught, leaves so little love and compassion, that people feel there is no hope, and they are full of guilt and unhappiness due to many of the teachings that affect them or their family. They can't see that they do have choices, and even if they do, they are not stable or strong enough to put them into action.
Suicide is a way of just "stopping" the pain. One just doesn't want to "feel" what they are feeling anymore and they can't seem to get past that. They just want out. They are tired of living their life the way it is, and are in too much pain to cope. So they opt out....like my first husband did, although not a JW.
Of all things to cause someone to feel this type of "pain", it should not be religion. However, in all fairness, there are many people who are already emotionally weak, and when too many things go wrong in their life at one time, they don't know how to get better. So many times, others don't even know the secret that these people carry around, until it's too late.
Life is so precious.
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