As the holidays near, it seems like the issue of suicide keeps coming up. A friend of mine is currently struggling with this, as someone in her family attempted to take her life late last week ( Read more... )

In a revolutionary new study, scientists have discovered that people who commit suicide have "nearly 10 times higher the rate of methylation -- which shuts down unwanted genes in a cell -- in their brains. The gene being shut down in the brains of the suicide victims was a chemical message receptor that plays a critical role in behavior regulation ( Read more... )

I have often heard about people having "near death experiences". After a critical incident many years ago, my mother had one and swears to this day that she temporarily passed to "the other side" and was sent back ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I received an anonymous e-mail from someone who said they knew me and desperately needed my help. This person was being physically and sexually abused they said, and they begged me to intervene on their behalf. Over the course of a week, I did my best to encourage this person to identify themself. Their response? More anonymous e- ( Read more... )