Think Hope Live: Embracing Life - Defeating Suicide

By Sharon Leippi

THINK HOPE LIVE is an easy read, especially the chapter on Suicide Alertness (Canadian Mental Health Association), so that everyone can be alert to someone at risk of suicide. Interviews with suicide survivors are included. There is a chapter addressing physician-assisted end of life, as well as a chapter for anyone who has lost the will to live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504389679

Sharon Leippi

Sharon Leippi believes we can make a difference by being alert to signs of suicide before a tragedy occurs. She also shares how low she was feeling after a pitbull dog attack. Sharon is the author of Fire & Ice: ALASKA - Baked, Blended & Sauted, and also Road Tripping from Alaska to New York City: Journaling the Journey & Taking Pix Along the Way.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-8966-2 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017915969

Balboa Press rev. date: 12/04/2017

Contents

1. Time

2. Phone Call for a Will

3. In Memory of my Grandfather

4. Suicide and the Wild West

5. Suicide is Not the Answer

6. Suicide in Today’s World

7. Accident or Suicide?

8. Suicide on the Installment Plan

9. Coughing & Suicide on the Installment Plan

10. Why ?

11. What About My Meds?

12. Interviewed: Suicide Attempt Survivors

13. Suicide Alertness

14. What NOT to Say

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