twelve months later

It's been 12 months since my best friend committed suicide and I thought to phone her Mum last Friday night (she lives in the UK). I waited until it was late here in Australia - so I'd get the off-peak rates - and called the home number. When I got through, I found out from my friend's Mum that her son has now passed away.

However, her son has passed on from another medical problem, he was younger than my friend, and this has really shocked me. It's awful to think this has struck such a good family; and it's making it harder for me to get through the grief of losing my best friend, knowing her family are now struggling with the loss of their son - and now both their children are gone. I never did get to meet their son when I visited in 1997.

This does hurt, but not as much as it does when I think about Hannah, mainly because I knew Hannah so much better than I knew her brother.

Thank you. I wish something like this didn't happen to such good people.