Ever deal with suicide of someone you knew?

[gfh77665]

I had three coworkers commit suicide. Yeah I know there is a joke opp there, but no, two of the three I did not know very well.
One was a young guy with a drug addiction, one was facing legal issues, and one was old and angry at life.
(Thats over my 40 year long career)

 

[wings&wheels]

Childhood friend. He was diagnosed with cancer at 13 or so, I forget which one. He went through chemo, and it was a tough battle but he beat it...for a while. Tough slog at any age, but losing your hair, months of sickness, etc. are awful at 13.

I came home for the holidays during my freshman year at college and he mentioned that he had to go for tests and I remember he was scared. Last time I saw him. We never got the complete details and I was away, but IIRC (40 years ago) he told one of the crowd didn't want to go through it again and next we heard he had shot himself. We were neighborhood friends, not the closest friends, but I still think of him.

Looking back we were pretty sympathetic for a bunch of 13 and 14 y/o total knuckleheads. Miss those guys, several are gone now.

Now can we go back to pleasant topics such as syn vs non-syn, domestic vs import, Toyota's superiority and the affordability and ease of ownership of older European cars?

 

[Jdeere562]

Please no more dark threads.

I'm 68 1/2 years old and must face reality, and have done it many times over the years.

Do I like how life has changed since the 1960's? Heck no! We used to have racks with guns in our pickup trucks to go hunting after school. Nobody thought a thing of it.

We also went into the Principal's office, if we misbehaved. Bent over, grabbed your ankles and met the board of education!

Miff with 2 boys? The whole class went down to the gym and they got out the boxing gloves for all to watch until someone went down.

Now teachers can't lay a hand on kids, no matter how mouthy they get. My mouth would have gotten that slapped out of me real quickly!

 

[carviewsonic]

A first cousin, in his fifties. His wife left him ten years earlier, which led him to depression, then eventually the loss of his career, which he had been very successful in. He had a daughter, now in her twenties. I wish he had been able to get the help he needed, for her sake most of all.

 

[RooflessVW]

A fair few, yes. When I left the military in 2012 it was one a year for a few years.

 

[Brian123]

I knew this person from the neighborhood pool, his mom and my mom were friends, I noticed that he was always sweating, he had some kind of condition that he just sweated. I heard years later when he was in his late 20's he went to some country in Europe for some kind of surgery to stop the sweating. It worked for a few months or so, but then the sweating came back, and he had to change his clothes like twice a day. His original doctor warned him not to go to Europe for this exploratory surgery.

Whatever the doctors in Europe did made his situation worse, and he took his Life. What makes it even sadder is his father eventually took his own life a few months later. Suicide affects all family members and friends. To this day, I wish he had reached out to me or maybe get some counseling. He was also Married, now I do not know if he had any kids.

This Thread is an Eye Opener for Me

 

[MolaKule]

This topic would be more properly discussed on a medical/psychology website and if you know someone in this condition, there are many suicide hotlines to go to, so we will close this thread.