Susan C’s Reviews > Hope Always: How to Be a Force for Life in a Culture of Suicide > Status Update

I'm convinced that the author has never struggled with depression himself. Many of his suggestions are millstones around the necks of those of us who have.

Another page, another ham-fisted approach to scripture.

The old adage "A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text" applies to this book. I have rarely seen such sloppy use of scripture. In the paragraph after saying intent determines if an act is suicidal, he says that Adam & Eve attempted suicide by eating the forbidden fruit. "They did the one thing they had been told would kill them." They didn't BELIEVE it! Their *intent* was to be like God, not die.

Chapter 2, the author talks about how the destigmatization of divorce as a moral failure led to more divorce, and postulates that the destigmatization of suicide as a moral failure will lead to more suicide. I have so many problems with this that I don't even know where to begin.