Have you ever known anyone who committed suicide?

My sister-in-law essentially committed suicide. She was morbidly obese and had many health problems because of her weight. She just decided one day that she was not going to take any of her medications any more and was dead in less than six months. She left two young children and a husband behind.

My boyfriend's sister OD'd....we are convinced that it was intentional but the official ruling was accidental.
 

So awful to read some of you have known so many!

A close friend of mine was at my house with her husband one night when her sister called us. Their mother was found dead in the bathtub after cutting her wrists. I can't begin to describe how that affected my friend.
 
I almost never speak of this. One day at work I got a call from my Mom. "Your Dad is dead". I rushed home and he was still lying on the garage floor. The coroner was there taking his ring and watch off and taking him away. He died of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. He was 52. I was 24 and married. I looked in his car and he had taken his two pet dogs with him (probably sparing Mom of caring for them). I took care of getting their little bodies properly cremated. I carried the image of him there in my mind for years. I am now 78 and I think back at how young he was. The pain of losing your Dad like that is almost unbearable. He was my best friend, a wonderful Father and I loved him with all my heart.
 

I knew a couple, but neither were close friends. A childhood neigbor did when he was in his early 30's. He was married and had a child. His wife left him and they divorced. He never did adjust and was unhappy, so he shot himself. Another guy who I knew through another friend, killed himself at cemetary after visiting his parents grave site. He was married and had children. He appeared normal and happy, so it was a shock when he did it. I guess you never know what is going on inside a person.
 
It is very sad when it is a young person ends his/her life. The bad times will pass, but they don't know that. My sister's step son killed himself with a shotgun in his mother's home where she found him.

I know elderly people who are going to do it when their quality of life has ended. I asked one of them "how". She said in the car with my favorite CD playing and her husband beside her. I know other singles that will also rather than face a lingering death. My Mom kept asking why she it was taking her so long to die, she had dementia for the last few years. My doctor told me one of his patients moved to Oregon to end hers. My husband has Alzheimers and tired to commit suicide, I stopped him, but not sure it was the wise thing to do looking back at how his life ended. When I see a husband & wife death on the same day in the obits, I know it is suicide.
 

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