“Why do some people commit suicide after tragedies?”
I have NEVER liked the phrase, “What doesn’t kill us, only makes us stronger”. Why? I don’t think it is accurate. I believe that some traumas damage a person beyond repair. Perhaps, a person doesn’t have any type of warm, loving family or maybe they get into a “funk” and see no more joy possible. Maybe the cloud of despair is so thick and black that their mind turns on them. Perhaps they don’t have a strong faith and can’t acquire one quickly after a tragedy. Either way, they are sad and need our prayers.
Well, tragedy is not a contest one wishes to enter. It’s is traumatic. Some people lose their sanity and never recover from the fear. Some become bitter and resentful things in the aftermath. These are few.
Having lived in hurricane alley and having seen what happens to people when all their stuff is destroyed, what you might consider broken in the aftermath of disaster, could also be looked at as “humbled.” You get stripped of all the illusion and just have yourself with yourself in the aftermath...and a close experience of God’s love and care for those who are fortunate enough to have built up faith going into the disaster.
People who go through this find out real quick how fleeting the material and the plastic impressions and desires of this world are and how everything really does boil down to love for one another. It kind of leaves one naked in a good way spritually, but it is hard to comprehend until you go through it and I hope you never do. There are easier ways to see through the illusions and amorality of modern American life and our misplaced values and priorities.