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Below the Breaking Point: The Business of Staying Alive: The Business of Staying Alive
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralBusiness GeneralDeath & Dying
Publisher Price: $28.99
Publisher: Raymond E Greenstreet II
Published: Jun 10 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He had convinced himself his death was the last responsible decision he had left.
By every measure that mattered, Raymond Greenstreet II had it handled. The successful business. The family who depended on him. The reputation built over forty years. He was the Rock - the one everyone leaned on, the one who always found a way.
What no one saw was the math his exhausted mind had started running in private: the quiet, false belief that the people he loved would be better off without him - that a life insurance policy could do what he no longer felt he could. It didn't feel like despair. To a problem-solver in crisis, it felt like the most responsible move left. It was a lie, and it nearly cost him everything.
In the summer of 2025, he acted on it. By any medical standard, he should not have survived. He did.
Below the Breaking Point: The Business of Staying Alive is the rare account of suicide told from the inside - not the aftermath, but the thinking. With unflinching honesty and zero self-pity, Greenstreet traces how a capable, respected, high-functioning provider can slowly talk himself into believing his death is an act of love, and the long, uneven work of finding his way back.
This book is for readers who:
- are carrying more than they know how to say out loud, and need to hear there is another way forward
- love someone who always seems to have it handled, and want to understand what they never say
- want to see how a mental-health crisis can hide inside hardworking, outwardly successful people
- believe the conversation around stress, pressure, and survival needs to be more honest and less hidden
Inside, readers will find:
- a gripping first-person account of crisis, survival, and recovery
- a clear-eyed look at the provider mindset under unbearable pressure
- an honest portrait of the ripple effect on a marriage, children, friends, employees, and a community
- a message grounded in lived experience: don't make a permanent decision about a temporary problem
This is not a clinical book, and it is not asking for sympathy. It is a blunt, deeply human warning - and a hand extended - for the people who never raise theirs.
The wiring lies. You are worth more than the check, the debt, the pressure, or the pride. And no one is better off without you.
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