About 4 days ago, a New York Chiropractor and his wife jumped from a 9th floor Manhattan building between 33rd Street and Madison Avenue committing suicide. They left notes in their pockets stating that they were in a "financial spiral" of debt, they had medical problems and couldn't pay their healthcare.
They left behind a son, 20 years old and a daughter, 19 years old. In her suicide note, the mom (50 years old) stated, "Our children are upstairs, please take care of them". The father (Age 53) was the son of a former mayor of a town in New Jersey. The media seems to want to connect this tragic event to the recent healthcare bill that didn't pass that would have repealed "Obamacare". But it doesn't seem like that would be the main issue bringing these people to commit suicide as they seemed to also owe money to the government, student debts, etc..
We pray for their children who have to now live on with a never-ending emotional echo of their parent's suicide, and being left behind to make sense of it all.
One of the many evils of suicide is the impact it has on the family left behind. Their children are now left to struggle for themselves, to make sense of how to survive without their parents, and to continue the fight for their own endurance in the face of their parent's lack of perseverance. What kind of a message and moral guidance does it send out to their two children who are now only getting started in life??
My heart goes out to them.
The father's typed suicide note stated stated, "We lived a wonderful life"...
And sources say that in a school essay the son wrote concerning his parents advice to him ... "You can lose all material things but no one can ever take away your faith".
Sadly, we can only guess how deeply these two folks were suffering, but somehow, their faith nor their children was enough for them to continue on.
The question is, "What are we living for"? What ever we live for, THAT
becomes our god.
As the economy suffers, the suicide rate goes up. And people with no hope in anything other than money or maintaining a certain lifestyle will find nothing to hold on to.
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Mark Chapter 10:
"And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
- Mark Chapt. 10
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link:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/07/29/son-daughter-in-law-former-new-jersey-mayor-jump-their-deaths-reports-say/522459001/
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