After My Son's Suicide

A CLOSER LOOK

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by Darla Isackson

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The morning of September 27, 2004, dawned bright and clear. I went about my morning chores little guessing that the day would bring me greater sorrow than I had ever known. Just before noon three plainclothes members of the South Salt Lake Police Department appeared at my door to bring me the news that my second son Brian, age thirty-three, was dead — by his own hand. How does one assimilate such news? How can a mother’s heart bear such sorrow? I love my son with all my heart and can only stand up under the realities of this situation because I believe in the hereafter and in the love, mercy, and the Atonement of Christ.

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Healing and Uplifting

Customer, UT - January 05, 2011

This is a wonderful, enormously helpful and healing book, and not just for those who have lost loved ones to suicide. My husband died of a sudden heart attack 17 years ago, and I did a lot of grieving then. But after reading this book, I realized how much unprocessed work I have been stuffing into denial, and how much that avoidance has made my life subtly unhappy.

It is also tremendously helpful to parents, spouses, friends and relatives of those who have gone astray into practices, addictions, and undiagnosed mental dysfunctions that damage their lives and break out hearts. How can we forgive them? How can God forgive them? How can we live with their choices? How can we be happy again? Isackson's book gives hope through gentle reason, scripture and many, many anecdotes.

This is the most healing, uplifting book I have read in over a decade.

Lorie, Texas