In trying to solve a problem it seems logical to begin by trying to answer three basic questions. What exactly is the problem? How big is it? And how serious??

The problem is smoking. How big? The World population is between five and six billion. It is estimated that 25% of adults smoke. That is 1,300,000,000 smokers. Makes you wonder how sunlight ever breaks through! It is also estimated that half of the World’s children are exposed to second hand smoke. How serious is the problem? DEADLY! If I were to list all the terrible health results of smoking and the horrific ways in which smoking kills, this would be a very long article indeed. Suffice it to say that these deadly consequences are well beyond proven.?

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Finding the right person to share your life with is like searching the ocean floor until you find a clam that shelters a priceless pearl. It is so prefect that you take it to a jeweler and you place it in a beautiful ring setting so you can show it off to everyone you know. Every time you glance down at the pearl you are inspired by its brilliance and it inflames your heart with love.

This is the reason that it hurts so much when you are betrayed by love. It was as if the pearl that was so valuable fell out of it’s setting and was lost to you forever. But it was worse than that for me, because I was not lost. The person I loved just discarded me, she cut me off without a word and left me bewildered as to why. I believe one reason she tossed me aside was because our relationship would have caused a change that her family would not have liked.

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Dear Jane,

How can I forgive myself and my husband?s family when our faults contributed to the death of my son (to suicide)? I was fearful that my son would commit suicide. Because of this, in your view, did I get what I thought? (I guess I already know the answer, which is yes, but in a roundabout way – through not speaking my mind because I was afraid of being rejected/abandoned.) I am angry and resentful at family members for growing marijuana for profit/greed. (They are not poor). My son started out with marijuana. I forgive them intellectually but cannot as yet emotionally. Do you suggest discussing my feelings with them or let it be. I have had advice both ways.

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I guess it’s time to write this. If you are entertaining, considering or just wondering about suicide, this is for you. There is nothing real to escape. The only thing that we want to get away from is what’s inside our heads. There is nothing inside our heads that is not imaginary. With that in mind there is nothing we need to escape from. I’m sure it makes a lot less sense to run from an imaginary world than a real world. The real world is only the solidified imagination. It can be dissolved and reformed by that which caused it in the first place. There no permanent thing anywhere. No permanent society, no permanent people, no permanent earth, ideas, laws, importance, religion or for that matter, even imaginary ideas. With this in place the world changes from life sucks to this little impermanent picture sucks.

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Depression in teenagers could be provoked by a number of factors, which vary from teenager to teenager. Certain momentous situations may result this disease such as death of someone close, separation of parents, shifting in to a new neighborhood and problems in relations, such as breaking up with lovers.

The Factors That Prompts Depression

Other aspects that could result in depression in the adolescent is lack of attention from the loved ones, cases of being abused or bullied in the past, damage to the morale or rapid and subsequent events occurring. Any major event that causes disturbance to a teenager could trigger depression later.

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Handwriting Analysis of DC Madam?s Suicide Notes

By David Riffey

On May 1st 2008, so called DC Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey was found hanging in a utility shed at her mother?s mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Two suicide notes were found.

The Pinellas County Sheriff?s Department has declared officially that it was a suicide and made the notes public. The Sheriff?s Department says that her mother and sister have seen the suicide notes and say that they are Deborah?s handwriting.

As a Certified Handwriting Analyst, my training experience includes examining writing found on suicide notes. The normal suicide note reveals personality traits that are emotional dynamics of a suicide state. Depression, low self esteem, moodiness, and impulsiveness disclose a person who may act in a self destructive manor. Full Story »