CLEMSON, S.C., June 4, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Eric was good-looking, talented and intelligent and had two promising careers -- as an engineer and as an actor. Quite unexpectedly he took his own life at the age of twenty-seven. Sandra Underwood recounts the emotional agony of coping with her only child's sudden and shocking suicide in her book, Eric's Story -- Surviving a Son's Suicide.
Eric never let anyone know of his bouts with depression; no one suspected that anything was wrong. He had just received a big promotion in his engineering job. Handsome and talented, he was beginning to attract attention in show business as well, appearing in the movie Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks.
Sandra began educating herself about depression and suicide and learned that it occurs widely in all countries and walks of life. Part of her healing process from her devastating grief prompted what is known as a "spontaneous spiritual emergency" or kundalini which has to do with an opening of the subtle energies in the body. What followed were some extraordinary paranormal experiences. The book contains family photographs and a selection of poems. It is meant to show survivors and others hope for a fulfilling life that -- despite the tragic loss of a child -- one can still find
About the Author
Sandra J. Underwood lives in South Carolina with her husband of forty-five years. Both are retired from Clemson University after decades-long careers there; she as an administrator in strategic planning and he as an English Professor and Shakespeare scholar. They live on Lake Hartwell. She enjoys researching, studying, and photographing orbs and the orb phenomena.
Eric's Story * by Sandra Underwood
Surviving a Son's Suicide
Publication Date: January 12, 2004
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