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    Choosing to Live: 3 Questions That Can Quell Suicidal Thoughts

    by Dain Heer Sep 09, 2018 5 minutes
    Choosing to Live, by Dain Heer. Suicide. Photograph of fork in road by Oliver Roos

    Photograph by Oliver Roos

    Tools to reclaim your strength and desire live
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    It is strange to write about suicide when you’re happy. It nearly seems disrespectful. Because if you’ve really been there, at the point of killing yourself, you know it is not a show, a gamble or a play for attention.

    That moment in time, that point of no return when you make the choice to end your life, is more real than anything you’ve ever experienced — and it changes everything. And if you choose beyond it, if you choose to live, you are forever different.

    I know, because I did. And I am.

    In honor of World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, I would like to share my story and some of the tools that allowed me to choose beyond the point of suicide.

    This was many years ago, I had just become a Doctor of Chiropractic and I had my whole life in front of me…as they say.

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