Introduction

i have talked with several christians who have told me they wanted to die. They were of different ages and different ethnicities, but each concluded that death was better for them now than life. It took courage to bring into the open the secret thoughts of death. Many others could not relate. And a few had prayed forj that if you have asked god to take your life, one of the first truths to realize is that you are not alone. God has heard such petitions before, for different reasons, at different times, from different pits. Men and women of god have prayed to be taken away. The prayers we find in scripture come not just from nor saints like us, but from