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Nov 22, 2022, 02:53 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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I'm so sorry, @Moose72, about your favorite uncle. How sad.
It's true that terrible failures can occur when a suicide attempt goes wrong. I've known of two of them, one was a guy I only saw now and then in college and one was my sweet great-niece.
With objectivity I can say that S. was one of the most kind-hearted, caring, gentle people I have ever, ever known. She was also a very sensitive, fragile person with mental health that was delicate. And that's probably why she was repeatedly taken advantage of by certain people in her life, and eventually ended up in a relationship with an older guy who abused her. S. had fine grades in high school and was accepted to college as an art major. But college was just too much for her. She got into drug use, which tipped her over the edge altogether.
(Please don't read this trigger warning if extreme violence triggers you.)
S. is 24 now and lives in a group home. Her sui attempt has caused a vicious rift in my family, lots of finger-pointing and blame (complicated situation and it's all really, really sad). Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I wonder if the whole mess has contributed to my sister getting so stressed (S. is her favorite son's daughter) that she eventually had the stroke that has caused her to have dementia.
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