Suicide...The New Epidemic

Jerry was nineteen he came from a wealthy established family. One morning he took a double barrel shot gun, and while my sister stood just feet away, he pulled the trigger and blew off the top of his head. Years later the image of him crumbling to the ground as the bullet entered his head in her memory as the morning it happened.

Don left home one night and went to the drive-in. He seemed depressed as a result of his job and financial pressures, He was found the next morning dead in his car. Don had taken a hose from a vacuum cleaner and attached it to his car exhaust. He left the car running filling it with fumes that choked the life out of him. Depressed? Who knew?

Just this week two friends called me in desperation because their teens were planning to commit suicide. One had a girlfriend leave him; the other was suffering from depression because of their parents divorce. This hit me very hard, too hard to ignore. I can’t just dismiss it, can you? Is this terror going to invade your life or the life of someone you love?

People, suicide is a monster, a demon that preys upon the weak, lonely, helpless and confused and it thrives on depression. It has no respecter of age, culture or breeding. The rich, famous, educated, the poor and homeless, are at risk. It is a fact that one time or another in a person’s lifetime they will think about suicide. You may not want to admit it, but at some point it entered your mind. That ugly spirit has come to torment and tempt. Depression is the number one cause of suicide. For years before I found Christ I would sit with guns in my mouth, waiting to pull the trigger. I would take cars and drive them into telephone poles and lakes. I would deliberately take overdoses of drugs. Pain that could not control, thoughts that ruled my life controlled me and it was God’s grace that kept me from killing myself. I had at least twenty friends and acquaintances that didn’t stop. They took their lives in various ways. One jumped off the Peace Bridge into the Niagara River in the middle of winter. They found him four months later decomposed floating in the Horseshoe Falls. I cried till I hurt. How could we have stopped this tragedy?

The government has declared suicide as an epidemic. Yes-dear friend, an epidemic!. You, and your loved ones are targets for this unclean lying spirit. What can we do? As the world seems to grow darker, as rejection, unemployment and hopelessness creeps into the lives of thousands this filthy spirit works his hateful work of suicide as an answer. As hopelessness seems to overtake our children this hateful spirit intensifies its work of darkness. But, we can overcome we can wage war. We can be victorious; we can save our loved ones and our children from this cycle.

Are you tempted with ending your life? Do you know someone who can’t take it anymore and wants out or is dealing with depression? I am on a crusade to stop this horror through this ministry by working with these hurting people. This is a serious cause and we will respond promptly. Before you make a decision to end it, please call us. Please let me help get you through.

Dear Christian friends I need you to assist me in putting a stop to this: Put me in touch with people you know who are contemplating suicide or feel helpless and hopeless.

Carol Kornacki Ministries,
P.O.Box 78515
Charlotte, NC
28271-7035