My friend, I lived years of my life without hope. I grew up being bullied and made fun of to the point that I hated my life. I would often wish I were never born. I felt alienation, rejection, and ostracism.
Yes, I know what it is to live without hope. Suicide has impacted my family in more ways than one. I confess that I attempted suicide; it was after my own daughter took her life at the young age of just 14 years old. Fourteen years old! I remember sitting there wondering how this could have happened. She was so vibrant and so beautiful, so young.
Her death wasn't the only loss that year. M...
