“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” YearsWarLastsDiesMonthsSixGunDiedSuicideIraqTerroristAfghanistanSix MonthsTerrorist AttacksHomicide Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“It was just a terribly stressful situation and dreary. A few months after [Eva Braun] suicide attempt, [Adolf] Hitler moved us both to the apartment, it was in the summer.” SituationMonthsSummerSuicideMovedApartmentStressfulDrearyStressful Situations Author:Gretl Braun
“in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.” GivingYearsWellsHeartReasonEnoughSpeakFeltRoomsMonthsWindowPraiseSuicideBreathingTunnelsKnots Author:Adrienne Rich
“Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.” PeopleInspirationalEndsHelpingBigsMotivationalDesireWishStepsOne ThingAchieveMonthsHealthySixSuicideWell BeingSix MonthsSuicidal ThoughtsSmall StepsBig Changes Author:Marlo Thomas
“Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.” MadeSelfFireMonthsPersonalityBirthResearchDiedSuicideInstinctSettingSettingsDestructiveSeptemberSuicidalOctoberFourteenSelf DestructiveDeceasedCommitting SuicideSelf DestructCyanide Author:Ian Stevenson
“I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help” DoneHelpingBreakMonthsSixMy FriendsSuicideBrokeFallenSuicidalSix MonthsDevastatedBroke Up Author:Aron Ralston
“Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.” HalfMonthsSuicideSorryCommittedShockedPlath Author:Anne Stevenson