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Larry King Tries to Beat the Despair of Death
A lengthy interview with TV personality Larry King claimed that the now 81-year-old (as of 2015) King is "fixated on dying." The New York Times interviewer ...
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Actor Heath Ledger Still Needed God
Every year there are a few shocking celebrity deaths in the world of entertainment that create brief searches for meaning among their fans. After one ...
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Many Workers Feel Bad 'Sunday Night Blues'
A global poll conducted by Monster.com reveals that 76 percent of respondents in the U.S. report having "really bad" Sunday night blues. That's a slight ...
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World Famous Guitarist Finds Real Purpose
Christopher Parkening, considered to be the world's greatest classical guitarist, achieved his musical dreams by the age of thirty. By then he was also ...
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Middle-Aged Americans Are Dying of Despair
Something truly disturbing is happening to middle-aged white Americans … A new study from two Princeton economists revealed that the mortality ...
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Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness
In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...
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Story About a Man Whose Dreams Shattered
Tennessee Williams's short story "Something by Tolstoi," tells the story of Jacob Brodsky, a shy Russian Jew who runs his father's bookshop. ...
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Film Producer on the Universe's Indifference
Here's how the late film director Stanley Kubrick (1928-199) explained his view of life: "The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create ...
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Preventing Suicide
Suicide has been in the news a lot lately. And unfortunately, many of us Christians don't know how to respond in a healthy way to issues of potential ...
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N.Y. Designer Had It All but Commits Suicide
An article in The New York Post ran the following story about the 49-year-old designer, L'Wren Scott, who shocked New York City by committing suicide: ...
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