Authors note: If you or someone you love is contemplating suicide please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifelineat:1-800-273-TALK (8255). Teenagers can call the Covenant House NineLine at: 1-800-999-9999. Cries for help should never be discounted or ignored.
There is a long history of suicides within the Jehovah Witness Watchtower organization. Some experts have estimated the rate of suicides associated with the society to be five to ten times the rate of the general population. The exact number of suicides is impossible to obtain for a variety of reasons.
Secular intuitions such as hospitals and police departments do not keep track of the religious organizations of the deceased. If institutions began to keep such records they would be accused of religious persecution. The American Psychiatric Association has moved towards a biological model of mental health. This causes non-biological causes of suicide to be discounted or ignored. The totalitarian Jehovah Witness Watchtower society knows of many suicides but will not admit guilt. The society has a long history of covering up damaging information. Evidence of the well documented child sexual assault cover up can be seen at this website: www.silentlambs.org/ Those that dare speak against the organization (Such as myself, Christian Peper) are harassed and denigrated by the cult.
The question must be asked: Why do Jehovah Witness members commit suicide at a rate far exceeding the general population? There are many contributing factors to Watchtower society suicide.
There is a long history of suicides within the Jehovah Witness Watchtower organization. Some experts have estimated the rate of suicides associated with the society to be five to ten times the rate of the general population. The exact number of suicides is impossible to obtain for a variety of reasons.
Secular intuitions such as hospitals and police departments do not keep track of the religious organizations of the deceased. If institutions began to keep such records they would be accused of religious persecution. The American Psychiatric Association has moved towards a biological model of mental health. This causes non-biological causes of suicide to be discounted or ignored. The totalitarian Jehovah Witness Watchtower society knows of many suicides but will not admit guilt. The society has a long history of covering up damaging information. Evidence of the well documented child sexual assault cover up can be seen at this website: www.silentlambs.org/ Those that dare speak against the organization (Such as myself, Christian Peper) are harassed and denigrated by the cult.
The question must be asked: Why do Jehovah Witness members commit suicide at a rate far exceeding the general population? There are many contributing factors to Watchtower society suicide.
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l.k.
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(Guest)
09/13/2009
I was batized last year and sudied with the persiding over seer's wife, I felt like she was be friending me.
Tod me not to ( Talk about my borthers ) and yet turned around and laugh out loud about some of the people in my cong. The husband study with my husband and told my husband several time if He did not get his wife undercontrl he would never be a minsateral sevant, then he started attacking me because I was uncoferatable about how hard he hugged. from then on I was cacounceled me about talking about him.
since I was in that congr. 7 elders
have left. I tried comitting suicied and wrote all over my bathroom mirrors there name and the cause. I can not bring myself back. to a meeting and feel so alone. I think the guys stroy is a bit harsh too.
heather t
(Guest)
(Guest)
08/31/2009
I was raised as a JW since birth. I was df'd when I was 22/23. My mom died 9 months later. My dad died when I was 14 in a sledding accident I watched. I used to pray to die. My mom used the elders as my father so I told on myself about everything and anything. Never did I realize how innocent and normal I was. I was told I was a danger to the congergation. I was still a virgin when they finally df'd me. After all, I told them everything I ever did wrong. Bro. Selesky telling me 'I don't want to explain to your dad why you aren't in the new system". Nice aye?
My hairdresser a nonwitness who did a lot of JW's hair told me about all these babtised girls who were sleeping w/and giving BJ to MARRIED men. Some I used to be "friends" with. I was shocked and in disbelief. My honesty cost me everything. If only I could lie like they were. I'd still have my brother. But looking back, is he someone I even want in my life?
To the guest hanging with the hypocrite. Run Run aw
Cheryl---jw didn't get me and never will!!!!
(Guest)
(Guest)
07/25/2009
I lost my two sisters and brother-law in joining this cult, and I can't get them out.
They break people down, then bring them back up brainwashed.
WELL -JW'S YOU DIDN'T GET ME AND NEVER, EVER WILL.
To my online friends out there stand on your feet---look in the mirror and don't let them get you either. tell yourself this daily. and if your in it,, tell anyone you can, to get you out. If you see them coming---RUN the other way.
RUN - TELL - AND - RUN-
I know a lot of witnesses that committed suicide and murder mostly suicide. They seem to be a oppressed people, a lot of them on anti-depressants, mental problems and fake ass smiles to sell you their mindsets so you can be trapped and fake like them. Bored at all those meetings, learning the same stuff year after year like the dark ages and occasional new light. Yall need to stop yall scare me. Thee only thing keeping things from be another JOHANESBURG SOUTH AFRICA is perhaps the watchtower business is still lucrative in the poor underdeveloped uneducated places. Man look out if the elders brothers start talking bout' drinking the wine next memorial.
unknown
(Guest)
(Guest)
03/11/2009
Until 7 years ago I was a JW,I am 35 now so it was for most of my life. There have been at least 3 people in my life that have committed suicide because of leaving the religion. They were not able to live with themselves because of the feelings of shame,guilt and rejection. The article I just read made me so angry. NO ONE kills themselves because it is the 'easy' thing to do because as a default they will be resurrected. Ridiculous, disgusting,and overwhelmingly egotistical that anyone would even suggest an idea so idiotic. Try feeling like everything you're doing is for nothing because you are dead in god's eyes and that you have betrayed everything that you have dedicated yourself to. That you are now to be shunned and marked as 'bad' and that god will no longer hear your prayers because of the sinful human errors you have made. Easy to come to terms with that, easy to live in a situation like that, easy to know that if you do kill yourself you really don't have a chance. None of any
Anna
(Guest)
(Guest)
03/02/2009
One thing not mentioned in this article (that I could find) is that suicide is considered murder in the JW religion. Therefore, if you off yourself, your chances of being resurrected are nil, unless you are considered to suffer from depression enough to excuse the sin of murder. Suicides are rampant for the simple fact that JW members who no longer believe in the JW doctrins see no other way out. A life inside filled with conforming and every last drop of your individuality and free thinking squished out or a life outside where you will lose every friend you ever had in the sect and possibly also be shunned by your own family. Fortunately, I got out with my life. This article is over-dramatizing the JW suicides when in reality it is very simple.
Jay
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(Guest)
02/22/2009
I was a JW for ever, and yes I tried suicide once because of the religion being so difficult to please everybody and have a hypocritical elder for a father. Yes, I am happily disfellowshiped,thank GOD! Glory to God!Yea at 14 my hair fell out in the front and as a female that was so humiliating. I went to the doctor with my mom and the doctor asked me was I under any stress as I looked at her, I said of course not. Once you kill the "mommy in your mind" people can live again. Stay Away From this CULT, I don't care if my family never speaks to me again I HAVE PEACE!
Lee L.
(Guest)
(Guest)
12/10/2008
Listen you dumbfuck, your religion isn't the most criticized religion on earth. It's barely a speck in the consciousness of most people. In fact, most people on earth confuse you with the Latter Day Saints. Your religion doesn't have the truth, its people aren't truly happy and quite frankly, many want out of that religion but are afraid to lose their friends.
I'm glad to have gotten out of that religion. Even though I'm severely depressed (Most, if not all the reason of why I'm severely depressed is due to family members shunning me for not being a member of their religion), I can say the one bright spot in my life is knowing I'm free of that totalitarian cult.
unknow
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(Guest)
12/03/2008
I have dated a JW for almost two years. I met her we went out, and a few dates later we slepted with each other. We have been sleeping with each other for awhile until all of a sudden she feels that what we are doing is wrong. Then she will still lay with me but not for sex but go to bed sex. She sends nakes pictures of herself to each "wordly" boyfriend she had. I really feel that she is crying for help to get out and I am her only solution. She enjoys hanging around wordly people but i think she is afraid of losing her parents. What should I do? I am studying and I am almost batize but to be honest with you all, i think the only thing i will do with this is write a book on hyprocrites. They all judge, including my girlfriend, but fail to look at their own misgivings. A brother wants told me that the biggest problem with JW's is that they feel they need to judge everybody but not themselves. I am afraid that one day she is going to do something, she is already on a path of self destru
it
(Guest)
(Guest)
11/22/2008
I have to agree with you, but what make me very mad is that the family they grew up with are just throw aways not real family, because they have a real family now and we hardly get to see the kids because my sister won't let them. Then get this she put her own dauther out on the streets because she didn't want anything to do with the JW anymore and I can tell my niece is so happy that she is not in that cult., I wish my nephew and other niece would leave but their mom brain wash them to much and they don't want to leave. One more thing my nephew is really good in any sports and want to play but he can't because his mom has him brain wash that he no good,
I seen this kid play he can go to any college on a sports scholarships but mom is always in the way & dad has nothing to say about it because that not his kid it's her kid. The dad isn't a JV he is a different Religion that does holidays. I love this one they don't lie, well my sister lie all the time. I think all JV are screw up.
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