Murder and Suicide in the Drink

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How monotonously the tragic results of the drink-curse repeat themselves, over and over, in every day’s news stories. A young man of only twenty-one years of age attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Tennessee River. Paramedics arrived at the scene promptly, and pulled him out of the river, but by the time he entered the emergency room, he was in a comatose state and virtually brain-dead. He died only a week and a half later. What makes a young person with so much potential, want to take his own life? It turns out, his father had a long bout with alcoholism and substance abuse. He had been sober for nearly a decade, but his disease left deep emotional and psychological scars on his family, particularly his children. Almost all of his children have or have had alcohol problems. This particular son was no exception. He, too, had received help from a clinic, and had been sober for four years, but the pressure of his recovery process evidently was so demanding, he had lost all desire to live. This sad story could have been avoided, had the father and sons heeded the warnings of God’s Word: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise” (Prov. 20:1).

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