Suicide: Preventing and Responding!
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Did Vincent Van Gogh really commit suicide, or is there more to the story than we think? In light of recent suicides (Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain) Jeff comes to you with a special episode on preventing and responding to suicides. Speaking from personal experience, he shares the signs that typically lead to someone wanting to take their life. He also shares ideas as to how you can respond, what the Church teaches, and practical things you can do if you or someone you know is feeling depressed.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Kavans show, episode 68, suicide, preventing and responding. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:15.6 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. |
| 0:21.8 | It's the Jeff Caven Show. |
| 0:26.1 | I want to welcome you to a special edition |
| 0:28.4 | of the Jeff Caven show today |
| 0:29.9 | as we're gonna be talking about a topic that is incredibly serious, very timely. Everybody is talking |
| 0:36.9 | about it and it seems to be coming up in the news more and more. And we hear about it because |
| 0:42.4 | of famous people who are taking their lives but at the same time |
| 0:46.0 | everyday people are doing the same and we want to talk about preventing suicide looking at the at the signs that there's depression, anxiety that's |
| 0:56.5 | possibly leading to somebody wanting to take their life, and we want to look at how do we respond to this. I also want to look at what does the church teach about suicide and what are some practical things that we can do if we start to feel discouraged and depressed or you know of somebody that is feeling discouraged or depressed. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, of course, in the last year or so, we've of three very very famous cases, Robin Williams who most of us are familiar with. |
| 1:28.0 | He's made us laugh. |
| 1:30.4 | He has entertained generations with his humor and his energy and we also heard about Kate Spade and maybe you own a purse that that she designed. I've seen them all over the place. And then also recently |
| 1:46.5 | sadly Anthony Bourdain, parts unknown and the show the food food show where he travels around the world and seems to have the best of everything, you know, travel and food and leisure and and |
| 2:01.2 | Anthony Bourdain just recently took his life. |
| 2:04.0 | All three, Robin Williams, Kate Spade, and Anthony Bourdane have been a part of many of our lives. |
| 2:11.0 | And when we hear that they they took their life of course it |
| 2:14.7 | it shocks us at first but then I think it kind of scares us too because we we |
| 2:19.8 | ask why why would somebody who has what we think everybody is looking for, |
| 2:28.0 | why would they take their life? |
| 2:30.0 | And I think that it points to something that is really true and that is that life is more than leisure life is more than money life is more than notoriety |
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