If our current culture’s suicide prevention strategy were a fisherman, it would make a horrible fisherman. A good fisherman knows at what depth and where his fish swim. Our fisherman is casting his net to shallow. He is trying to catch all of the fish at the shallower depths. He is trying to catch the normal sadness species of fish. Or another way to look at our strategy or coping with depression and suicide in the USA is like running up to a highway that empties into a canyon. When we arrive at what would be a safe exit, we are surprised that there was a fatality in the canyon. Why? Because by the time we arrived at the exit, the careening car had already blew past this exit and was well onto its way towards the canyon. We are focusing on “normal sadness” and we haven’t made preperations for the life that is deeper in the water or further up the highway and closer to the gorge. We need, we must have a strategy for the life that is further in the lower depths of life and further down the highway of giving up on life and closer to the gorge between life and death if we hope to stem the tide of the suicide epidemic in the USA and around the world.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:30:53 +0000
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