Reply #81: Suicide leaves behind a mess for the survivors

[bleedingheart]

The person who kills him/herself hs no worries after they die. However they leave behind an emotional mess for their family. As my mother has said to me .."the dead have no worries".

My grandfather, worried about monetary problems, hung himself in the garage. His eldest daughter found him (she was about 12 at the time) and she was never quite right after that...dropped out of school and got pregnant young to a wife beater.

My grandmother was a mess, an immigrant with no education, she set about finding a husband..the only way to provide for her three girls. She married a "real provider"...and he proceed to molest the girls (my mom was one of them).

So the man who thought he would "help everyone out" by killing himself ended up making a huge mess for his family.

My brother tried twice to kill himself after coming to grips with his homosexuality. He wanted to die because he wasn't normal... Well lucky for us he failed at his attempts and we have him to this day and our family has accepted him lovingly... rather a gay son/brother/uncle than a dead one....