Suicide Prevention: Hope When Life Seems Hopeless (Hope for the Heart)

I just want to die. This is the most desperate cry of the heart, a sorrowful signal that a soul is on the brink of devastating despair. Nothing is as heart-breaking as a loved one who has lost hope and is contemplating suicide. A person who seems cheerful one day can slip into despair and hopelessness the next. Each year over one million people around the world succumb to the weight of their burden by taking their own life.

June Hunt, a licensed biblical counselor, provides biblical hope and practical help by answering tough questions related suicide, such as:

• What is the portrait for painful thinking?
• What are the characteristics of suicidal teens?
• What is the profile for suicidal males and females?
• Who is the most vulnerable to suicide?
• What is the root cause of suicidal thinking?
• How does fear relate to suicide?
• What is a Contract of Hope?

God’s heart is tender and full of compassion toward those experiencing deep pain. He longs for the desperate to turn to Him with every wound of discouragement. God can turn anguish into assurance, despondency into deliverance, and heaviness into hope with a renewed understanding of His marvelous plan.

Suicide prevention requires compassion toward the sufferer, along with practical steps and biblical assurance of God’s love. Suicide Prevention covers the steps to identifying and preventing suicide using a Christian approach. You’ll learn how to better reflect God’s heart to help those hurting, and you’ll gain practical insight on what to say and what to do as you reach out to a suicidal loved one.