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A recent blog post on Grief After Suicide argues (convincingly, I hope) that suicide bereavement is unique because suicide itself is a unique way to die.

Celebrating The Fourth of July and seeing Signs of the Beyond Life:

When you left,                                                   &n

 I have asked so many times Why?

why did MY son have to die.

I will never know or understand,

why God came and took your hand.

He took you home and I sit in sorrow,

knowing there will not be that tomorrow

when you walk thru my door and I see your face,

Hi Momma,

We start to feel alone, abandoned, orphaned in a pretty short time after our loss. Grief is a greedy monster. It is not satisfied with tearing our hearts to pieces, no, it has to rip our world to shreds too. We had people around us that we trusted, took them at their word. Pretty sad time to have trust broken as well as life as we know it.

C

Remember how they surrounded you your last few weeks on earth? Remember how people were here at the house from sun rise til sun set? Remember how much people cared? Remember how often the phone would ring? Remember all the knocks on the door from visitors? Once you left this world, they seemingly left our lives as well.

Because of you...

   I can't smile the way I used to.

   I can't enjoy my time with family and friends.

   I can't focus at work.

   I can't think straight.

Where do I go, now I'm on my own...

I don't know the way, I haven't been shown.

What do I do, when I'm alone...

No one to talk with, just want to moan.

What do I think, about my new life...

Don't have a husband, no longer a wife.

What do I plan for, what should I do...

It's so hard as one, when we used to be two.