This week a 25-year old pro football player named O. J.
Murdock committed suicide. In February of this year the legendary Don Cornelius
ended his life. Shakir Stewart, a 34-year old highly successful record
executive took his life in 2008. In 2009 approximately 2,084 African Americans
committed suicide. 80% of them were men. I used to think that people who killed
themselves were folks who gave up on life, thinking that life will never get
better. But now I have a different opinion
for why a person decides suicide is their only option. It’s pain. And the most lethal “pain medicine”
is death. Once a person is in so much pain – not physical but emotional – they
will do anything to stop the agony. Its not that they have given up hope, its
that they hope death will end the anguish. How do I know this? Because in 2009
I set a date to be number 2,085. That’s when
I knew I had to tackle my depression or die.
To be continued ...
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