This one hit a soft spot with me. I’ve been in a similar situation and I know a lot of people who have. It’s so well written.

Exceptionally well-written! And even more heartbreaking. Something similar happened to me in high school. It didn’t get to me nearly as much as it did to this person, but i still wonder if maybe I’d kept in touch with…let’s call him “Brad”, whether i might have been able to keep him from putting that gun in his mouth at age 19.

But i was only 16 at the time, and hadn’t seen him in years because our dads had a major falling out (totally my dad’s fault). I had no idea anything was going on until my dad called his the morning he’d seen Brad’s obituary in the paper. First time they’d talked since they nearly came to blows 3 years prior.

That’s the trickiest thing about suicidal people: you never know they’re in enough pain to really do it until it’s too late.

Wow. Thank you for highlighting and sharing this.

Damn.

Well that was heartrending. I was not prepared for that.

Fuck dude.