George Sanders, the cynical and sinister film star for over 30 years, took his own life in 1972. In his characteristically simple way he explained in his suicide note, “I am leaving because I am bored.”
Increasingly, there are people who are either so bored with life or so pressed down by the circumstances of life that they do not find life worth living. In addition to all the people who are taking their lives, and in addition to the heartache and tragedy that surrounds an experience like that, there is a growing movement in America to glorify suicide and the ending of your own life.
I suppose it is that fact that prompted Jimmy Allen to say some time ago, “It is the task of the church to grow people who want to live and who are unafraid to die. It is part of the Christian faith to give us reasons and resources for living.”