The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Short essay: nonfiction, suicide, grief“She made thirty suicide attempts before the age of thirty. Some unseen and unknown inner turmoil, created a war within her: a chaotic war that she felt she could not win, but wasn’t sure she wanted to lose”Excerpt taken from The Journey by Sara NilesIn 2011, my daughter Ariel was still alive and doing well for the moment when I read those words to her. Since it was about her, I needed her approval to allow me to include such a personal description of her behavior in the book I was writing about her siblings and her. I read the entire chapter to her over the phone and she got quiet. I asked if the depiction of her was accurate, and she replied that I ‘hit the nail on the head-that I was dead on’, and that it scared her to see herself that way. In fact is scared her so much that she stopped her suicidal behavior for almost nine months, which was a record for her. I hoped that meant the suicidal behavior was over, but it was not.The suicidal obsession that began at age 15, took almost 18 years from its start to its conclusion: it was a long suicide.