How many suicides have you known, personally?

treeguy64

treeguy64

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(Moderator: If this is too morbid, just delete it. I apologize. The post on violence got me thinking about this.)

I will start:

Person My age MO

1. 1st serious girlfriend (we didn't keep in touch) 19 garage/CO
2. Old bass player's wife 26 pistol
3. Old drummer's wife (not in band with bass player) 30 pills
4. My (then) mil 42 alcohol
5. Famous tattooist who gave me valuable lessons 51 pistol
6. Guy who owned the shop next to my tattoo shop 52 pills
7. Old student, much later, a short relationship 53 shotgun
8. Daughter's cousin in law 58 hanging

People whom I talk to say it's very odd, the number of suicides I have known, personally.

How many suicides have you known, pretty well?
 

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One....

An 18 year old boy that I babysat when he was a baby. I watched him and his 2 older brothers a few times. The parents were very good friends of my grandparents and parents.

He killed himself because of a girl...by carbon monoxide poisoning....sat in his car in a closed garage.

Went to his funeral.
 
Several. A neighbor, another one, my uncle. Two male friends who BOTH developed cancer
& couldn't live with it. One guy tried it but got the measurements wrong and wound up a
basket case, depending on his family to keep him alive and BEDRIDDEN !
IMO, They should have let him go.
 

3...

1.When I was 14 a lad in our school same age, whose party we'd attended the night before when we were all at school, and who hung himself the next day..he was perfectly fine the night before. Big shock

2. When I was 18 my mother took her own life.. :(

3. Approx 4 years ago my daughter's half brother ( in his 20's) hung himself from a tree in the woods due to worry over gambling debts
 
A young man over a girl who's parents would not allow them to date, hose in car with engine runnig.
A young man who had drug problems, hung himself,
A man who was ill and had no chane to recover and shot himself.
 
A young co-worker, in his early 20s, started bodybuilding and I think the steroids he started using had something to do with it. His girlfriend left him, and he went to a hotel and shot himself in the head. Another was in a neighbor's house. He had a friend who was laid off from his job and couldn't find other employment, since he would have been living on the streets, my neighbor let him live there until he got on his feet. He was found in the basement, hung himself due to depression. Thankfully I haven't had anyone close to me take their own lives.
 
A fella that lived down the street several years ago went in the backyard and shot himself.

Don't know the real reason why.....one story was that he found out that he had terminal cancer and the other story was that his wife had recently left him.
 
These stories are so sad.
In high school I remember hearing about a classmate's father who had been embezzling from employer. Just before getting arrested he shot himself.
There was another classmate who came home from school with her sister and discovered her father had hung himself.
Can't imagine.... :(

ETA remembered another one. A corporate attorney ...I knew him but I no longer worked there (this was in 2002)...I happened to run into someone who told me. The legal department was restructured, some attorneys were let go and he couldn't deal with it.
 
My sister-in-law. She left two young children and a damaged husband.

The Spousal Equivalent's sister. She took the easy way out, rather than face consequences.

A space engineer I worked with and really respected and liked. He was the last person in the world I would have ever expected to kill himself.
 
February 13th will be 15yrs since a cousin of mine Hung herself after her husband asked for a divorce. She did it the day before Valentines day in hopes that he would send her flowers. It still breaks my heart.
 
1/. A really good male friend. Drugged himself to heart failure.
2/. A girlfriend who drugged herself in the barn with her horses.
3/. A friends husband who couldn’t handle the fact that my friend wanted a divorce
4/. My husbands friend from work who shot himself in the head cause his wife left him
5/. A friends daughter and her best friend who did a double suicide for reasons I can’t reveal
 
treeguy64 said:
(Moderator: If this is too morbid, just delete it. I apologize. The post on violence got me thinking about this.)

I will start:

Person My age MO

1. 1st serious girlfriend (we didn't keep in touch) 19 garage/CO
2. Old bass player's wife 26 pistol
3. Old drummer's wife (not in band with bass player) 30 pills
4. My (then) mil 42 alcohol
5. Famous tattooist who gave me valuable lessons 51 pistol
6. Guy who owned the shop next to my tattoo shop 52 pills
7. Old student, much later, a short relationship 53 shotgun
8. Daughter's cousin in law 55 hanging

People whom I talk to say it's very odd, the number of suicides I have known, personally.
Click to expand...

Geez, tg, after reading yer list I'm feeling rather despondent
 
Falcon said:
Several. A neighbor, another one, my uncle. Two male friends who BOTH developed cancer
& couldn't live with it. One guy tried it but got the measurements wrong and wound up a
basket case, depending on his family to keep him alive and BEDRIDDEN !
IMO, They should have let him go.
Click to expand...

I agree. If I would ever find myself in that position, I hope and pray I would be let go, and I've left formal directives to that end.
 
Besides a couple of acquaintances, an old boss of mine, a judge, shot his wife and himself. He would literally have been the last person in the world I would think would do a thing like that. He was well liked and respected by his peers and associates and absolutely loved by his employees. He was 61. To this day no one knows why he did it, but they know he planned it because he had dropped off his dogs (he really loved those dogs) at his son's house, saying he and his wife were going out of town for the weekend, and did it on Friday night knowing that people would be in to find them on Saturday morning.

Another attorney drove into the mountains and shot himself. No one knows why he did that, either.
 
I`m sure there are more but the ones that come to mind are

1) A girl from high school who shot herself in the head in her mother`s living room in her 20s. Would never have expected her to be someone who would do this.

2) A guy from high school two years ahead of me-was in hubby`s and my sister`s class. Hung himself the morning of graduation.

3)My daughter`s MIL`s nephew. I had a long talk with him one night when he was about 14 on a ski trip and he told me that he would kill himself. I talked to his aunt about it,she told his mom. Aunt was very close to him,she and his mom are identical twins and she has no children (she is actually my daughter`s step MIL,married to her hubby`s dad). Chris ended up driving his VW bug head on into a semi the day after he graduated at 18.

4)My son`s best teacher ever found her 15 year old son hanging in their yard. I was and am good friends with her.

5) My nephew in law`s son. He shot himself last summer. 27 years old. He was autistic and should never have been home alone-especially with a gun in the house. His 91 yo bedridden grandpa with dementia was in the house as well. He left a note that was basically gibberish so no one knows why he did it.
 
Too many to count, both school friends and family members. The sadness can be overwhelming when I think of it.
 
A friend's son, who was a math whiz as a child, killed himself because he was a day trader and got in way over his head. And a former student, who was a terribly angry young man, and thoroughly messed up in the head.
 
A guy whom I'd known since early childhood, but just occasional contact for many years, hanged himself in the woods.

A close friend's mother (I'd only met the mom once), alcoholic, slit her wrists in bathtub.

A gal we were acquainted with socially, after her bf broke it off, parked on the interstate and ran out in front of an oncoming semi.

My husband's client for whom he was finishing another part of her basement, found her grown son dead, with a gun on his bed, still wearing headphones, sort of.

A former sister in law whom I hadn't seen in many years, but I never found out how, or why..
 
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