Reply #35: I'm so sorry. That is so tragic. Suicide can run in families.

[liberalmuse]

And it is a terrible thing, because how do you deal with someone you love choosing to end their life? You wonder if there is something you could have done that would have prevented it.

When one person in a family commits suicide, the odds are a lot higher than another one will follow, and the odds just keep getting higher. I hope your family members most affected by this seriously consider some kind of group therapy, such as meeting with other survivors of suicide.

Those poor little kids. They will need a lot of love right now. The older ones will blame themselves, even though there's no reason for it, so I hope they can get a lot of support from the rest of the family.

My dad committed suicide in '86, then my brother in '97. Both were great guys. The rest of us were despondent for months, but you never really get over something like that. It seems like a lot of really decent people chose to check out early. The world could really use these people alive.