The aftermath of suicide — Misty lost her son in August 2014 and is struggling to keep his memory alive, prevent suicides and to cope with the heartbreak.
https://todayistblogger.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/the-aftermath-of-suicide-a-mothers-story/
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Thats a very sad article, but I hope the author’s first language isn’t English, because in some parts it’s really badly written.
I know thats a petty thing to pick up on, but it bugged me
@mattcsidd I thought it was generally a good article. Nevertheless, do you care to reiterate ?
Don’t get me wrong, I liked the article, and props to the author for tackling a difficult subject, but it’s the little things like not capitalizing the first letter of a word after a piece of punctuation or putting “having her stomach PUMP free of the pills” instead of pumped.
Petty things, I know.
I’ve been through that recently. Not the same, nothing can be the same of losing a child, but I lived the suicide of a family member this year. And I don’t have the English vocabulary required to explain how heartbreaking it is. How you feel when you think about what he must have passed alone. How you feel looking at the rest of the family. How you have to fake to be ok in order to be able to help them. How, suddenly, everything in your life turns around one single fact. And how you have that image burned in your brain. Every day, every night. Every single moment, every thing that happens is all related to the suicide.
Wow, thats the first time ive ever read someone else’s story but in reality that story don’t even begin to describe the aftermath of finding someone you love hanging from a f***** rope. Sad yeah but should be written better might cut straight to the heart and make some people think, before they act.
She would be numb, haunted by the last look into her sons eyes as they stare without life back at her. She would be full of emotion, but holding onto the love she had for her son and trying to forget how she felt the morning of her teenage sons death at his own hands. She must blame herself and his ex girlfriend, she would be conflicted by guilt, forgiveness, hate, remorse, grief and now struggling with bipolar and depression. I think she would be struggling to really make sense of her feelings and unable to express the torment in such detail. I think she would of suppressed her memories of that day and the days leading to it and unable to recall her exact feeling and thought process.
My memory of my close mate is tarnished with the view of his final moments. I can’t think about him without having the image of his death creep in.
More people should research the real impact and devastation that suicide causes, it would certainly make some rethink their plans. Even the stranger that finds someone who has killed themselves can be scared and develop emotional problems. I’ve spoken of a guy that jumped from a building in front of my truck. I couldn’t close my eyes without seeing his limp, broken body and the mess of blood that ran up the walls and consumed any dry area. I don’t wish those images to be impressed on anyone.
I really feel for this family and any other family that has been the victim of a suicide.