Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide - Paperback

by Ronald Rolheiser (Author)

Those who die at their own hands can be trusted to the "infinite understanding and compassion" of God. -- Fr. Ron Rolheiser
This book offers hope and healing to those who have experienced the loss of a loved one or anyone trying to understand suicide. --Daniel S. Mulhall, Catholic News Service

Emotional depression leading to suicide can work the same way. Sometimes a person can be treated so that, in effect, they are cured; sometimes they can't ever really be cured, but can be treated in a way that they can live with the disease for their whole life; and sometimes, just as with certain kinds of cancer, the disease is untreatable, unstoppable, and no intervention by anyone or anything can halt its advance - it eventually kills the person and there is nothing anyone can do. Thus, Ronald Rolheiser begins this small, powerful book.

With chapters also on "Removing the Taboo," "Despair as Weakness Rather than Sin," "Reclaiming the Memory of Our Loved One," and "The Pain of the Ones Left Behind," Fr. Rolheiser offers hope and a new way of understanding death by suicide.

Author Biography

Ronald Rolheiser is a specialist in the fields of spirituality and systematic theology. He is president emeritus of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, and a professor of spirituality there. His books, notably The Restless Heart, The Holy Longing, and Sacred Fire, are popular throughout the English-speaking world and have now been translated into many languages. His recent books Domestic Monastery and Bruised and Wounded are bestsellers, and his weekly column is carried by more than eighty newspapers worldwide.