Seniors and suicide Prevention

Thanks for posting. I was thinking the other day that as far back as I can remember, I knew that making it to old age would be hard and depressing usually--I was surrounded by angry and/or depressed elderly when I was a kid--but I didn't realize that fear comes with it: what will I do when I can or should no longer drive? What will I do when I can no longer afford anywhere decent to live? What will I do when I can no longer take care of myself? And what if I cannot afford better assisted or skilled nursing facilities?

Maybe it's just as well that I didn't realize that back then.
 
I can relate to what you experienced which is painful in itself because you more than likely saw yourself experiencing their agony. You have a lot of company with that fear and anguish but maybe you experienced this alone with no support base. It's what anguish is all about. Positive thinking may not have lifted your spirit but keep looking up to our good LORD in Heaven and he will guide you from despair. I sincerely appreciate you sharing your story and may GOD bless you.
 
nyctrasit5950 said:
I can relate to what you experienced which is painful in itself because you more than likely saw yourself experiencing their agony. You have a lot of company with that fear and anguish but maybe you experienced this alone with no support base. It's what anguish is all about. Positive thinking may not have lifted your spirit but keep looking up to our good LORD in Heaven and he will guide you from despair. I sincerely appreciate you sharing your story and may GOD bless you.
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Based on ten years of personal experience as a Toronto Ambulance officer. I say this.........Suicide is the most selfish act a person can do. They are dead, BUT the people who are alive, who knew the dead person, are forced to suffer the results of that selfish act. JIMB>
 
nyctrasit5950 said:
I can relate to what you experienced which is painful in itself because you more than likely saw yourself experiencing their agony. You have a lot of company with that fear and anguish but maybe you experienced this alone with no support base. It's what anguish is all about. Positive thinking may not have lifted your spirit but keep looking up to our good LORD in Heaven and he will guide you from despair. I sincerely appreciate you sharing your story and may GOD bless you.
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Thanks for your kind thoughts. It does feel lonely worrying about these things; I can't convince my husband that these are things we need to address. He keeps saying "Not yet, not yet. We don't have to worry about that yet." I've noticed a lot of elderly--seems to be more men than women who do that--they keep pushing it back saying we don't have to worry about that yet and 5 years later, i.e. 5 years closer to the morgue or skilled nursing whichever comes first, and they're still saying it. I don't know; maybe in my husband's case, it's because he didn't grow up around old people like I did; it's extremely rare for anyone in his family to reach their 70s (lot of cigarette smokers and all distrust doctors).
 
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