A penetrating account of a family dealing with suicide. G. Lloyd and Gwendolyn Carr offer solid guidance for those who worry about the eternal fate of a loved one and provide a reliable and readable summary of Christian thinking about suicide. Useful for pastors, counselors, and teachers. 164 pages.
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Excellent Book for anyone who has had a loved one who died by suicide.,
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This book is an excellent one for anyone who has experienced a family member or friend's death by suicide. It answers many questions that the remaining person has regarding the shock of this kind of tragic loss. I highly recommend this book as a source of healing for those going through the grief process. It answered many of my questions when I went through a situation like the one that the author experienced.
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This review is from: Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide (Paperback)
On December 9, 1983 Kate a young woman in her early thirties killed herself by gunshot - this death left behind a young child and husband. Moreover, Kate was also a Christian and left behind a family of Christians. Such a state of affairs is one that can be a source of shame and difficulty for Christians. Aside from the general guilt and stigma suicide continues to bring there is the almost universal sentiment that suicide is a sin, even a mortal sin.
The death of Kate, or more specifically, the after-effects of Kate's death is the subject of Fierce Goodbye. The title is taken from one of the co-author's poems written shortly after Kate's death, the relevant section being "You reveled deeply / in your pain / until, with only death / to gain, gave one last cry / to sever hurt - / then one last fierce goodbye". As the poem illustrates this is not an academic treatise and, in this, is reminiscent of Nicholas Wolterstorff's Lament for a Son. In the case of the Carrs it was a daughter in law who died but some of the same raw truth-telling is present but, in the case of the Fierce Goodbye I do get the sense that it emotion has been censored somewhat in respect to feeling a need to put a positive shine on the feelings of tragedy. There are, I think, two aspects to this book. First there is the personal recollection and voice given to the grieving process. Second, there is a more formal examination of suicide in church tradition and scripture which leads to the conclusion that there is no basis for the assertion that suicide is sinful, mortal or otherwise. That is not to say that the Carrs in any sense condone or support suicide but just that, after analysing what scriptures say directly in respect of suicides, the common assumptions on which Christianity's rejection of suicide, both intellectually and personally, is without basis. I suspect it is this section that will be of most use for the Christian coming to terms with a loved one's suicide. It does not answer the questions that plaque all such deaths (could I have done more?, is the suicide a judgement against me? Etc) but does go some way to confronting the peculiarly Christian doubts. This is a good book and one that, should the occasion arise, I would think appropriate to pass on to someone affected by the suicide of a loved one.
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