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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
In his book, Thanks: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make you Happier, Robert Emmons writes, “Hopelessness and despair can adversely impact the endocrine and immune systems, even hastening death. Conversely, being an optimist may help reduce your risk of dying from heart disease and other causes. A thirty-five-year…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Analysts say that the prolonged economic downturn is having a negative effect on the suicide rates in our country. The Centers for Disease Control announced that suicides among Americans 35 to 64 have jumped 30 percent since 1999. The biggest jump is 49 percent and affects men from 50 to 54. The figures…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Teenagers who join the Goth subculture are at a substantially increased risk of depression and self-harm, according to a recent British study. “The longitudinal study of 3,694 adolescents found that teens who identify as Goth at age 15 are three times more likely than other teens to be clinically depressed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Washington State, Vermont, Oregon, and Montana it is legal to for a physician to assist a patient commit suicide. Under this law, 83 Washingtonians died in 2012. When a person despairs to the point of having no hope suicide can look like a reasonable solution. Grace calls us rely on the sufficiency…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
There is a growing trend of hopelessness, especially among the Baby Boomer generation. Mental health experts say that job loss, foreclosures, and the pressures of caring for aging parents and difficult teenagers are causing an increasing number of them to commit suicide. Between 1999 and 2010 the rate…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
The Centers for Disease Control recently released startling new information about depression in America. The CDC says roughly one in ten Americans suffers from some degree of the affliction. Though the standard of living has continued to go up, the rate of depression have also risen over the past several…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
It has been a tough six months at Cornell University. Over that time, six students have taken their own lives. With the reputation of a “suicide school,” school and mental health officials have launched a massive effort to find the problem and stop it. --The Week March 26, 2010 p. 9. Illustration by…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 151 views
Until the time of our death, we live, sometimes even if we don’t want to. Vangelis Kapatos, a 26-year-old New York City man, decided he didn’t want to live anymore. He jumped from a ninth-story window to kill himself. It must not have been his time. He landed on his back in a pile of uncollected garbage…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Vangelis Kapatos, a 26 year old New York City man, decided he didn’t want to live anymore. He jumped from a ninth-story window to kill himself. It must not have been his time. He landed on his back in a pile of uncollected garbage bags. The trash bags responsible for saving his life, were piled much…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
SUICIDE In a typical year, 32,000 Americans commit suicide. That is about twice as many as are killed by others. A study by a California clinical psychiatrist has indicated that if a suicide can be avoided when the person seeks to carry it out only a small number will make another effort. Kevin Hines…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
ANXIETY According to an Associated Press-mtv-U poll “Eighty-five percent of the students reported feeling stress in their daily lives in recent months, with worries about grades, schoolwork, money and relationships the big culprits.” And “Forty-two percent said they had felt down, depressed or hopeless…
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As the Coast Guard ended its search for three missing football players whose boat tipped over in high Florida seas, the lone survivor said two of those lost gave up after hours in the frigid water and the third tried to swim to safety. South Florida player Nick Schuyler told investigators that all four…
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The Coast Guard called off its search for three missing football players at sunset Tuesday. The news came after crews combed choppy waters off the Florida Gulf Coast for a third full day since NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith and friend William Bleakley disappeared. Their fishing boat capsized…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
MONEY We have heard stories for years about businessmen in 1929 jumping from skyscrapers on news of the stock market crash. Today’s executives cannot jump out of windows onto Wall Street. The windows do not open. On Jan. 5, 2009, however, Adolf Merckle, a German billionaire, threw himself in front of…
Kevin Scruggs • Illustration • • 23 views
So I've been with my wife for 6 years, married for 3, and from the beginning, folks warned that we were a mismatch, but I'm very stubborn & wanted to prove our love to the world! At this point, it's interesting to see the fo talk of "changing in the 20s", as I was 23, she was 30 when we married. I wouldn't…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
HOPELESSNESS What do you do when life totally falls in on you? With no money, no car, no place to live, and no way to care for her little boy, Tiffany Toribio chose the dark path. She placed her hand over her 3-year-old son’s mouth and suffocated him, twice. The first time she performed CPR to restore…
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"Bat Man" or "Bat Guy" or "Bat Boy" — that's what they called him. Ask the most hard-core baseball fan about John C. Odom and most likely you'll get a blank stare. Yet millions of people have heard of the slender right-hander. He was the minor league player traded for 10 maple bats. It became a big joke…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 5 views
Captain Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin participated in one of the greatest technological feats of the 20th century--he was one of the first two men to walk on the moon. Then something very unexpected happened. In just a few short years after his historic voyage, his life had turned from success to the brink of…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 20 views
Promise Box Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, a well-known preacher of an earlier day, lived with his family in France during his student days. On their dinner table sat a little Promise Box that held approximately 200 promises from the Bible. Each was printed on heavy paper and curled into a small cylinder,…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 9 views
Captain Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin participated in one of the greatest technological feats of the 20th century--he was one of the first two men to walk on the moon. Then something very unexpected happened. In just a few short years after his historic voyage, his life had turned from success to the brink of…
Evan • Illustration • • 2 views
In 1997 Hilary and I were backpacking through the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, for just a couple of days holiday from Israel. We had just enough money to get us to mount Sinai and back on a bus and taxi. The journey was dreadful. We waited for hours in the blazing heat for a taxi to take us to Dahab, from…