Suicide is On My Mind

By:
Kimberly Konkel, Associate Director for Health, HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

This World Suicide Prevention Day, an experience Sister G, a Mormon missionary, shared with me comes to mind. Sister G. was a widow whose husband, a neurosurgeon, died of brain cancer 5 years prior to her being my missionary partner.

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