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75Teen Suicide Is Too Sensitive For Advertisers?
Suicide is a fact of life. It happens daily, and it happens by various means of escape. It is important that we face the crisis of suicide, and begin to talk openly about the facts.
0 comments72Suicide Awareness & Prevention
Suicide is a crucial matter that does not disappear just by pretending it isn't a real risk. Adolescent suicide statistics are particularly horrifying. Awareness and intervention are the ways to prevention of adolescent suicide, or of any suicide for that matter.
1 comment69Murder~Suicide
Murder-Suicides have deeper roots, and happen more often than we could begin to imagine. And as an outsider looking in, it's a challenge for this author to remain non-judgmental and unbiased. The lesson is there, as I struggle to make sense of this too familiar story.
4 comments62For Believers In Angels
Angels and patrons mingled and brought enlightenment to this new age gift store proprietor. I do believe in angels! Some walk the Earth disguised as humans!
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62Author of Blessings In The Mire quoted on Lifetime's Army Wives?
Is plagiarism "the highest form of flattery"? Check out this link and decide for yourself! http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/shows/army-wives#comment-293258 Author of Blessings In The Mire, Jan Deelstra writes the following: "On Sunday, June 8th,...
0 comments59Shining The Light
Suicide: The #3 Cause of Death for America's Adolescents Copyright 2008 By Jan Deelstra Children are killing themselves in record numbers. The statistic of suicide as being the 3rd leading cause of death for those adolescents between the ages of...
3 comments58Suicides Among American Adolescents
Suicides Among American Adolescents My son committed suicide at the age of 21, following an altercation with his allegedly cheating girlfriend. With the gun blast that took his life, the life of his loved-ones was also blown apart. He had much to...
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52Writing The Pain Away
Writing, whether journaling or actually creating nonfiction work, is a healing tool. At the most devastating time of my life, it was writing that saved me from myself. The result of that period is Blessings in the Mire, the memoir of my life.
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48Blessings In The Mire, by Jan Deelstra
Blessings in the Mire: A True Story of Miracles & Recollections, by Jan Deelstra is a candid and often brutally honest account of one woman's struggle to survive. Casting aside social mores and beliefs learned in childhood, Deelstra seeks her own truth, "even in the most nefarious" conditions. A page-turner autobiography memoir.
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49Adolescent Suicide #3 Killer of YOUTH
My son committed suicide at the age of 21, following an altercation with his allegedly cheating girlfriend. With the gun blast that took his life, the life of his loved-ones was also blown apart. He had much...
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