How to stop "suicide" in a family member.....

Now this is assuming that the family doesn't live in an area where "suicide terrorism" is a factor.

If you have a family member within the "immediate family" (that can include up to or including 2nd or even 3rd cousins) if you are related and were nurtured around them, your heart and mind could get affected by this issue.  The closer, the more awareness of their life, and the more your heart could get affected.  The further distance and relationship the less likely.

Some claim that "suicide" is a genetic thing, which it may be in some circumstances especially if the "weak person" is already weak in many different areas and conditions of life.  This isn't always a TRUTHFUL factor as some even label certain heritages this way.  Intelligence may or may not contribute to this factor.  There ARE people of minority status who may carry the burdens of past generations called "generational post-traumatic-stress disorder"......genocide watch-list and people associated with some form of post-traumatic stress due to those factors.

There have been a couple of my immediate family that took their life, and I believe a 2nd or so cousin (whom I wouldn't recognize personally) who committed this act.  The family members WERE on a prescription drug of some sort, so that may have been a factor at the time.

From a general perspective (without need for religious views) here are some things to consider doing.  (Note: I have worked in the health care environment, but I have not worked with extreme mental health crisis except when I was given a bad drug in my teen years):

-Invite them

-Provide a "low stimulation" environment.

-Encourage screen free activities and engagement

-Encourage faith group participation.

-Go for a walk and say the creator accepts you as you are.  Point out the abundance of things the creator provides (clean water, clean air, wild-edible foods, entertaining things in nature etc.)

-Encourage overcoming bondages

-Tell jokes

-Encourage them to connect, think about and pray for and with other immediate family members.

-Encourage them to think of positive memories.  Childhood, young adult, adult life.

-Provide shelter for them if needed.

-Encourage good health choices.

-Take over some simple tasks for them.

-Encourage them to volunteer their time for something like and organization.

-Encourage them to use and consider "non-violent" or "negative emotion" entertainment.  (no horror movies)

-Be OK without lots of holiday madness

-Hug them

-Say kind things to them

-If they are creative, encourage positive creative elements, not negative.  For example, a child that comes out of war-torn Syria....encourage the child to draw pictures of refugee children gathering flowers on the hill-side instead of the awful image of seeing a "dead man" in the street.

-Say I'm sorry.

-Listen to their side of the story.

-Have them listen to nature sounds. (Birds, bugs, water etc)

-Discourage them from choosing "questionable" relationships or constantly changing relationship to relationship.  Discourage strange sexuality practices that are in opposition to nature or physical body reality. (ie. Einstein married his first cousin.....but that didn't prevent his early death)

-If financial things are a factor (like a major loss, through a gamble or risky investment), consider if they are trusting in their wealth in MONEY or the wealth in knowledge around family members.  Do they know a family member's favorite food?  Do they know a family member's favorite song?  Do they know a family member's favorite bird to watch? (If they don't know those "little things," then they will not be capable of handling the "big things" like large amounts of money and investment)

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Now from a faith based perspective, family members should KNOW they cannot POSSIBLY encourage EVERY FAMILY member to have the same faith-based views of this world.

BUT, there can be similar views which prevent issues like suicide in the first place.

Faith views that could help eliminate the "lies" brewing in a family member's mind.  There were "suicide" people in the ancient days (intelligent and not-intelligent), and there are still people with those conditions today.

-Jesus didn't come to condemn the world of its sin, but rather to die for it.  We shouldn't condemn the family member of their sin.

-Jesus was the "lamb of God."  If we are to "be like Jesus" then we should be totally trusting and always willing to listen to the shepherd's voice, instead of the voices of strangers.  God's voice is kind-nature and gentle.

-Love covers a multitude of sin.

-Encourage them to not think to highly of themselves.  Their mind and emotions didn't exist unless their heart was beating.  So they should focus on keeping their heart clean and free from clutter.

-Various examples in the Sermon on the Mount.  It is better to do for others than to take from others.

-Encourage them to pray for others, starting with the family and friends closest to them.

-Encourage them to pray through the bible.  Use the psalms and proverbs to come up with ideas.

-Believe that we are weak and he is strong.

-Trust in him to help overcome sin

-Regularly read and meditate on bible.  Try parashah reading method and so forth.

-Be merciful.

-Consider that suicide is a form of "self-murder."

-Eliminate hatred within the heart.  It could come from anything, like hatred based on race, relationship or other factors.


Religious choices could CAUSe or PREVENT suicide:

Sometimes the "thinking" is not in alignment with "law" so the factors of evil play a role in the conditions of evil that brew in the heart.

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