Why would an individual want to kill himself or herself? This continues to
be a difficult question to understand, not to mention answer. Why not seek
help when support and care is available? Why? Is the question the bereaved
of those who take their lives by suicide constantly ask. Why has the value of
life completely lost its appeal for a small number of people who appear to be
healthy, when the opportunity is there to change course, to enjoy life to the
full and to look into the extraordinary abyss of how little we know?
There are people around us who may be perceived as having many reasons to
kill themselves and yet do everything in the power to live, and there are those
who may appear to have every reason for living and yet kill themselves.
Such is the enigma of suicid
