I think people were scared to talk about my friend’s suicide
‘I needed people to say the same things they might have said if she had…
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‘Without the kindness and prayers of our church, I don’t know how my family would…
I have been first on the scene after many suicides
‘I have been first on the scene after a number of suicides and they have…
I felt I had to be strong
‘I felt I had to stay strong to support the rest of my family, especially…
It was so hard to tell them that their dad had killed himself
‘It was so hard to tell them that their dad had killed himself. I tried…
I felt responsible for his death
‘As his mum, I felt responsible for his death; that I should have seen his…
How could all the love we had not have been enough?
‘I’ll never understand – how could all that love we had not have been enough?…
I also felt suicidal
‘I too felt suicidal. Then the pangs of guilt would smash through my head about…
I feel my mum is stigmatised by the label ‘suicide’
‘I feel sometimes that people define my mum’s life by her death. She’s stigmatised by…
I will focus on remembering with joy all the good times
‘So I have made a pact with myself, which some days I can stick to,…
His death consumed every hour of every day
‘His death consumed every minute of every hour of every day and on the rare…
I started talking – I have found the strength to move forward
‘I spent a large amount of time trying to ‘solve’ why my son had decided…