Pray To Believe ~ A Song for Suicide Loss Survivors

This is Diane Kaufman, MD, the founder/director of the Hold On Campaign for Suicide Prevention (www.holdoncampaign.org) that uses the power of art to connect, express, and heal. I wrote the Pray to Believe poem/lyric back in 2017 which was years before the start of the Hold On Campaign after I read actor Jim Carrey's words on the suicide death of his ex-girlfriend: "We're all so afraid of the river of tears," he said. "The fact is, going down the river of sorrow and suffering is the way to freedom," Carrey continued. "I've gone through it and I'm telling you, you don't survive it. You don't come out of it on the other side. You might come out of it with a body, but there's no you attached to it. It's tough to be yourself if you don't have a self.” Thank you songwriter/musician/producer The Prophet X and singer Samantha Smith for bringing "Pray to Believe" most beautifully to life. Thank you media design animator Lucia Martinez Rojas for your heartfelt artistry. For those listening to this song, if you are having suicidal thoughts, please call 988 for help. Painful though it is, one can learn to live on after the suicide death of a loved one.

[@RealDudetteLucy]

Great song. Let's all pray to believe

[@artsmedicineforhopehealing7882]

Thank you, Lucia! And thank you, too, for your beautiful animation of "Pray to Believe," a song that can help save lives.