In recent months, we’ve seen an increasing number of celebrities end their lives. A former glamour model and Playboy Playmate jumped from a 25th floor window. A United States Navy admiral used a weapon. Four other prominent celebrities used a rope. They included an actor, a figure skater, a fashion designer, and a larger-than-life chef, author, and television personality.

After two well-known personalities passed within days of each other, TIME magazine said it was: “...a one-two punch to our belief that there are some people who are living the perfect life… What more could a person want?"  

What’s more, TIME said, “What do we do with the information that those whose lives we admire cannot bear to live? How do we process the reality that all that they’d had and done were not bulwark enough against darkness? What hope,” TIME asked, “is there for the rest of us?”

Thank God the answer is “new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” [1 Peter 1:3] That is what many of us have. Do you have that living hope? If so, share it and help rescue someone you know who feels life is not worth living. 

This is Luis Palau.