Have you Ever Thought About Killing Yourself?

Living with the killer within

All lights and alarms were on in the trauma ER. Someone quickly pulls me into the code room to relieve the tired ones—my turn. I climb up to the hospital bed, place my hands around her fragile sternum, and push her chest as I look down at this twenty-year-old female who had just taken pills and drowned herself at the lake. As I continue…