Suicide notes:
Radical perspective on cutting free from oppression and hopelesness.
A different view on the worth of the individual.
On making an end to guilt, shame and anger.
How to enter the extreme river.

"Our world has slipped its moorings:
our population threatens to overwhelm us;
our waste products are about to smother us;
our modern weapons are capable
of obliterating us.
Because we are incapable of loving and living
for one another,
we are about to be destroyed
by our own self-centeredness
and to turn this beautiful world You have given us
into a wasted and desolate planet.
It all seems so unreal
and I feel so small and insignificant
in such a world."
Leslie Brandt. Psalms Now

"O God, at this time I find myself
really up against the wall,
at the bottom of the barrel,
at the end of my rope.
There is no place to go but up.
Save me, O God, before it is too late.

I can't even cry out any longer;
I can't even pray, so deep is my despair.

O God, don't let me go down the drain.
Respond in your great love,
to my unhappy plight.
Raise me from the mire of despair,
the darkness of depression.
Deliver me from these human weaknesses
that beset me and lead me into defeat.
You know what they are, O Lord,
And You know the limits of my endurance."

Leslie Brandt. Psalms Now