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Nov 21, 2022, 07:12 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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I believe your question is a good one, Md. It's one I have certainly turned over in my own mind many, many times. I guess the one thing I keep coming up with is the effect taking our own lives inevitably has on the people we leave behind. Even future people who may never have known us, but will always hear of us as "the great-aunt who killed herself" or "daddy's grandma who killed herself."
What's so sad about that is the "suicide" takes prominence over all other personality characteristics, and that could be so unfortunate.
I don't know. My own aunt
on her 60th birthday. I was 25 at the time; next month I will be 60. I have missed my aunt so much all these years. She had this sense of humor that was like no one I've ever known. Plus, now I'm facing 60 and I'm feeling extremely anxious, facing the age she was when she took her life. 60 came so fast.
Since her death, new children have come along into the family and they would have adored her - and she, them. But she took that opportunity away.
I worry that those children will know her only as
rather than the bright, funny, fun woman she was.
Sorry. I'm rambling. But maybe my own upsetting experience gives you a small sense of what it feels like to be the family member of a suicide. I've also lost a very dear friend to suicide. He and I went to high school together. He suicided when we were 34 and it was a horrible shock. Just so, so wrong. Sooo much artistic and musical talent, lost.
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