The Personal Side of Suicide

Joining host Dennis McCuistion are 4 individuals who have been personally impacted by suicide:

Left to Right: Dan Johnson, Julie K. Hersh, & Vanita Halliburton

• Kevin Goins became so deeply depressed after losing his job he thought he had no future and seriously contemplated suicide. His faith helped him.
• Dan Johnson, a songwriter, who wrote a song presently in concert called Hemingway, talks and sings about his father who committed suicide when he was 33. Dan was angry and depressed for a long time and at age 32 decided to die by suicide. It was an epiphany for him when he realized he was going to do to his kids what he felt his father had done to him.
• Julie K. Hersh, President of The Hersh Foundation, and author of Struck by Living, attempted suicide several times because of her deep depression. She received electric shock treatment and today is well. She speaks about her crisis all over the world and started the foundation to help others in this situation.
• Vanita Halliburton founded the Grant Halliburton foundation after her teenage son Grant committed suicide. The foundation serves young people and their family especially through these crisis.