Suicide affects people of all religions and cultures. Each month, this column features the views of clergy of different faiths.
Fr. Ron Rolheiser on Stigma
"Suicide is
most misunderstood of all deaths.
There is
perhaps nothing more painful in the world than for us to lose a loved one to
suicide. A couple of months ago, I received a letter from a woman, a mother,
who had recently lost her 28-year-old son in this manner.
The young man had been suffering from clinical depression for nearly eight years when he took his own life.
