An option for those contemplating suicide

Suicide is seldom out of the news and for victims’ loved ones, the grief and unfathomable sense of loss endure long after after the event.

Everyone has suicidal thoughts and people deal with these in different ways. I have read the anti-suicide literature and agree with all the reasons as to why we shouldn’t opt for this permanent solution to a temporary problem.

But for me, one of the strongest antidotes to even the thought of suicide has been the astonishing data that has emerged from research into Near Death Experience (NDEs). Leaving aside the endless controversy over whether people see the Other Side during NDEs, or truly meet long-dead loved ones (though such assertions deserve respect and have not been disproved) what I find significant is that in cases worldwide, people who attempt suicide and are revived after being pronounced clinically dead, almost without exception say they are glad they failed.