A suicide, a loss so young: questions with no answers
Last week, a young friend of mine - age 28 - left this world at her own hand. No one knows why; no note; only a family left to grieve; young children left without their mother; a young fiance left without his bride-to-be; and a stunned community left to suffer its loss. We know she had experienced a complex life; we know she had suffered as had Rush Limbaugh; and we ask why doctors are even allowed to give out medication that time and time again has had such devastating results... So today, I set aside politics and all the "ism" and grieve for the loss of my friend... If you believe in prayer and in Our Lord, Jesus Christ, please say a prayer for my young friend and her family and for the many families hers represents who suffer such tragic loss daily... Please be kind in your thoughts at what quiet desperation she must have felt... Thank you...
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6 Comments:
We share your grief. God Bless her. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and her family...
So tragic, always, for everyone who remains and so much that cannot be shared or expressed. She and her family and friends are in my prayers.
Having lost a young son in a similar manner, I feel your loss.
You, your friend and her family are in my thoughts and prayers. Morgan
CBG,
My deepest sympathy for the loss of your friend. Allow yourself to grieve. It won't replace your loss, but it will be easier to endure.
Don't blame the pills, they did not cause death anymore than a gun would have. Your friend took her life because she was deeply troubled and she used whatever instrument was at hand.
My wife and I are praying for her soul and for peace for her friends and family.
God Bless,
Watch Dog
Suicide is a permenent solution to a temporary problem. Most people who do this want to stop hurting more than they want to stop living.
My sympathy
Thank you all for your kind words and for your prayers. My young friend's family is in such grief that they are casting blame at her fiance who is a very good friend of mine.
I ask you to please keep him in your prayers too. His is a heavy burden. He was miles away - several states away and could not reach her in the days leading up to her tragic actions.
As you know I have not been on-line for some days now. I'm trying but I just can't seem to get there quite yet...
Don't leave me... We don't know each other personally across these ethers but there are times when I feel closer here and more connected than at any other time.
I just look at the politics, I look at the hatred, both from some within and some without, raging against our fine nation and her fine, strong people who have given their sons and daughters to free Europe, to ultimately "save" Japan and South Korea and I know we have the courage in us to save ourselves but we must strike against the chains of "political correctness" which is censorship, we must strike against the flames of radical Muslims who mean us harm, and we must make our stand.
This election is a tipping point. For myself, I am trying to step out of the pain and sorrow of my young friend's senseless death but I don't know how. I do what each day demands and then I watch TV or read about the Apostles - anything to keep for thinking... Anything at all to keep the tears away...
I have also experienced a more intimate loss overlapping this same time and combined they leave me almost unable at times even to walk, too devastated to even talk about it to my friends - no one wants to hear it anyway, right? It doesn't help to relive it but it does help to admit the loss to myself. The pain is one way to know we're alive and to know the loss is real.
I realize we grieve for our loss, for ourselves but...
Life moves on but this time I'm going to allow myself the time to grieve...thank you again for your kindness.
Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to start living again - I think that takes time. And I'm not certain I know how to do it. I was just adjusting to my own loss/sadness when my friend took her own life. Her death and the manner of her death were such a shock to me that I believe her death forced me to face my own loss in a very real way.
The wind just leaves your sails and you are stalled on a calm sea with nothing on the horizon by ocean...
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