Help My Unbelief

by Dale M. Coulter

The final word for the family of the suicide victim is hope. Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2019

Playing Church

by Paul V. Mankowski

Robert Fuller's festive send-off and theatrical suicide point to the hypocrisy of “playing church.”   Continue Reading »

10 Sep 2019

Mass Shootings and Émile Durkheim

by John Waters

The pattern of mass shootings may be a symptom of a suicidal culture.  Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2019

Mortal Frames

by J. Todd Billings

A Time to Keep:  Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by ephraim radner baylor, 304 pages, $49.95 A Time to Keep is an odyssey—a journey through childhood and adolescence, work and sexuality, aging and dying. The reader encounters Sigmund Freud on dying and death, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Cyber Self-Harm

by Aaron Kheriaty

The widespread practice of digital self-harm reveals sad truths about our culture of victimhood.  Continue Reading »

29 Jan 2018

How the Media Promote (Some) Suicides

by Wesley J. Smith

Thanks to the media’s promotion campaign, suicide has become a siren song attracting the ill, aged, and despairing.  Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2017

Dying of Despair

by Aaron Kheriaty

On November 4, 2014, ­­sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His suicide note provided no clear reason for his act; there were no apparent signs of mental illness, and he was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

Killer Show

by Aaron Kheriaty

The typical suicidal person is not a tragic figure fated for self-destruction, but a vulnerable individual suffering treatable mental health problems. 13 Reasons Why portrays suicide inaccurately and irresponsibly. Continue Reading »

8 May 2017

The Excess of Stephen H. Webb

by Samuel D. Rocha

In the fall of 2010, Stephen Webb challenged me to a footrace at Wabash College. I accepted. We lined up on a sidewalk crack. Before the signal came, Webb bolted off. As I ran to pass him, he pushed me into the road. He tried to grab my shirt to stop me from passing him again. He laughed with . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2016

Saving Willy Loman

by James R. Rogers

The focus on the increase in death rates for white Americans between ages 45-54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2015