Preventing Suicide

About the Book

If you are presently immersed in suicidal ideation or thinking, get help immediately! This book has a lot of information intended to help you through this terrible situation, but if you are already there, get help. Call a crisis line, suicide hotline, a doctor, a psychologist, a friend, a parent, a grandparent, someone in your life that you know cares about you. Ask for help, and take it when they give it to you. You are worth it!

About the Author

The author, Susan J. Norman, was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in July of 1954. She received a BA in English from the University of Iowa in 1983. She has been a meter maid, an activities coordinator for a senior program, a camp director, and at present, a realtor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Years ago, she contributed to Shadow on a Tightrope, which is used in Women’s Studies classes throughout the nation. She has been a hospice volunteer, church lady / prayer warrior, and as a child, was wild and adventurous, riding her bicycle to the edge of the known world. As an aunt and great-aunt, she is beloved by the little ones and works to provide them a better world. This book is a work of love to help protect people who are hurting in the worst ways.