Wow there’s a lot here, having lost 2 family members and a friend to suicide since 2018, I was immediately interested in your article. My sister also frequented the sanctioned suicide forum before completing and it seems there is where she learned how to use the method she did.
I can’t help but find it interesting that this takes place in Canada where the government literally aids in suiciding its own people. Whew, very dark.
When you speak of people failing and that means that they will go onto live, it’s giving me quite a bit to digest. I attended various support groups and forums over the years for survivors (meaning those who have survived losing someone to suicide) and I commonly heard people talk of intervening multiple times before they did in fact find a way. It is a common belief in these groups that people who decide to do this will find a way and there’s really nothing anyone can do. In fact it is commonly shared as a way to ease the immense guilt that those closest inevitably feel.
But as always with suicide loss, nothing can be put in a tidy box - as much as our brains long for sensible explanations. The biggest hurdle in the grief of losing someone this way is the unending “why?”.
My sister would have been 45 years old yesterday. I miss her. I always do. I found it so weird back 10 years ago, the Logic song with Alesia Cara (sp?) 1800- …. beautiful song but remember all the little kids singing it out loud not grasping the first two chorus lines of the song and the meaning. I can laugh about it now, I don’t know why I just thought this randomly….
Wow there’s a lot here, having lost 2 family members and a friend to suicide since 2018, I was immediately interested in your article. My sister also frequented the sanctioned suicide forum before completing and it seems there is where she learned how to use the method she did.
I can’t help but find it interesting that this takes place in Canada where the government literally aids in suiciding its own people. Whew, very dark.
When you speak of people failing and that means that they will go onto live, it’s giving me quite a bit to digest. I attended various support groups and forums over the years for survivors (meaning those who have survived losing someone to suicide) and I commonly heard people talk of intervening multiple times before they did in fact find a way. It is a common belief in these groups that people who decide to do this will find a way and there’s really nothing anyone can do. In fact it is commonly shared as a way to ease the immense guilt that those closest inevitably feel.
But as always with suicide loss, nothing can be put in a tidy box - as much as our brains long for sensible explanations. The biggest hurdle in the grief of losing someone this way is the unending “why?”.
I’m sad that you have gone through this. Peaceful thoughts for you.
Thank you. Long and dark is the night, but joy cometh in the morning.
My sister would have been 45 years old yesterday. I miss her. I always do. I found it so weird back 10 years ago, the Logic song with Alesia Cara (sp?) 1800- …. beautiful song but remember all the little kids singing it out loud not grasping the first two chorus lines of the song and the meaning. I can laugh about it now, I don’t know why I just thought this randomly….
I'm a survivor of a serious attempt, I was later told it was uncertain if I lived.
I have to admit that my long-term depression was cured afterwards. Obviously, it's not a way of treating depression I'd recommend.
The irony was that I swallowed all of my antidepressants at once