A Secular Perspective on Suicide

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Join us for a respectful and critical conversation about suicide from a secular perspective.

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SUICIDE-RELATED RESOURCES

Crisis Text Line - text "HELLO" to 741741z

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1-800-273-8255

For friends and family
National Alliance on Mental Illness suicide info -https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Related-Conditions/Risk-of-Suicide
ASIST training, how to handle suicide issues at a lay-level. https://www.livingworks.net/programs/asist/

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:46.2	This is an email that I received on Tuesday,
0:49.6	the 25th of September, it says this.
0:53.4	The night finally came.
0:56.1	I'd been planning it for several months.
0:59.1	I'd done my research, special order to large rope,
1:03.7	set aside a hopefully lethal combination of pills
1:07.2	and I scouted a location.
1:10.1	I printed out letters for friends and family,
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