Jesus, this hit hard. I've lost several friends to suicide for various reasons.
One was a guy that I briefly dated. He was a raging alcoholic and he threw himself off a bridge on Mother's Day 2000. This loss is chronicled in my own story, Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days
One was a lifelong friend who secretly suffered from depression and killed himself on his 30th birthday. He would have turned 50 on 13 April 2023. I do not know the method and do not want to know.
One was a gambling addict. Lost everything. Shot himself rather than face his family.
Two were suffering from terminal cancer and chose to end their own suffering. Both by gunshot.
It's never easy. Never. I can never stop thinking about the state of mind these people were in when they decided that it was time, that they had enough.
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