Dealing With Suicide

Philippians 4:4-13

This funeral was for a man in his sixties who committed suicide. The message is an attempt to deal with the subject in a sensitive and caring manner.

The death of a loved one is always a tragedy. It is doubly so when that loved one has taken his own life. Today, we have come together to share the sorrow of all the Carpenters at the suicide of their husband and father, L. T. Not only grief, but guilt and anger are normal feelings when faced with the death of a loved one. Such feelings can threaten to engulf us in the presence of suicide. We look back and see little signs ... and ask ourselves, "Why didn't we see those signs?" "Why didn't we see them in time?" "Would he still be alive if we had done something different when he must have been feeling so mu…