{"product_id":"bruised-and-wounded-struggling-to-understand-suicide-9781640600843","title":"Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThose who die at their own hands can be trusted to the \"infinite understanding and compassion\" of God. \u003c\/b\u003e-- Fr. Ron Rolheiser \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book offers hope and healing to those who have experienced the loss of a loved one or anyone trying to understand suicide\u003c\/i\u003e. --\u003cb\u003eDaniel S. Mulhall, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatholic News Service\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recent events have shown again how suicide touches all of us -- often when we least expect it. But how to unpack the grief that follows such a painful, and often stigmatized, death? Ron Rolheiser can help. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When someone is stricken with cancer, one of three things can happen: Doctors treat the disease and cure it; professionals can't cure the disease but can control it so that the person suffering can live with the disease for the rest of his or her life; or the cancer can be of a kind that cannot be treated and all the medicine and treatments in the world are powerless - the person dies. \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Rolheiser, OM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e, is a specialist in the fields of spirituality and systematic theology, and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author. He writes a regular column that is featured in more than seventy newspapers worldwide. He is the author of many books, including bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Longing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSacred Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForgotten Amongst the Lilies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBruised and Wounded\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDomestic Monastery\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paraclete Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50581584347410,"sku":"9781640600843","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1917885-1a2a-4fe6-b28b-c5649206780e.jpg?v=1732016153","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bruised-and-wounded-struggling-to-understand-suicide-9781640600843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}