I Lost a Loved One to Suicide Stories of Experiences

I lost my mum to suicide on the 13/04/2012.. my mum was my bestfriend and losing her has been so hard. Not seeing her everyday like we used too. The pain still hurts in my chest and tears flow most days thinking of her.. miss and love...

I love this song.....every time I hear it, I think of my friend who killed himself. Even when he was alive, we were constantly apart. He served overseas. And when I heard it then, I'd think of him. Now it just hurts worse because he...

I lost my father 5 years ago.....

It is still so hard to cope, due to no closure, why did he take his own life? here is his story of his life until his death.

My father had the grunge biker look, tattoo's, mustache and ball head. But...

On October 22nd, 1997, my wife sat in the living-room of our home, put a loaded pistol to her head, and pulled the trigger. She was dead before she hit the floor. That was the darkest day of my life.

She was found by our oldest (16...

My father committed suicide when I was a baby. I spent a long time resenting that. Now I see it from his point of view. I can't quite forgive but I accepted it.

Chris I love you, and you'll never be forgotten. I know we weren't dating for long, but I still love you. I always will. Yes you acted like everything was fine and told me you were okay, but I'm not mad. I'm just sad.. I miss you. I...

When I was 11 my mother died to suicide and apparently it was due to schizophrenia, I had a hard time as kid coping with it because no one told me what it was and what was going on with my mum. I knew it had been happening but she had...

Would I hate our mother for the only choice she felt was left for her, having been told two days in a roll the child she had brought up was dead?
Yes, mistakes were made by those that came into the house two days in a roll to tell her...

My husband... charismatic, brave, loving and a wonderfully wonderful father and provider lost his battle with his inner demons April 7th 2009. We were together at 15 married at 20 welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world at 21 and...

Dear Mom,
I will always love you even though you nearly killed me once. I never would have wanted to see you leave so soon. Even when at times I felt like you didn't love me, I knew deep down that you did. You left to early. I wanted to...

I'll never know what could've been. I'll never know if it could've been prevented. Hell, I'll never know what would've been if she had told me the truth. But. Right in this moment. Here. Now. I know that I'll never see my father again...

i'm missing my dad today. well honestly i miss him every day, theres no way to get around it, he's gone. but its days like these, when one small thing happens- or in this case something huge- that effects me for the worse, or the better...

simple as that. It absolutly sucks. I hate that he left a mess for everyone else. I miss him and want him back.

One more week and I will have survived
another April.
The intensity of despair and sorrow
has become a dull ache,
silent, because now they don't know
and I don't want to tell them.
It isn't because of the stigma.
I consider that...

When I was twelve my older brother was sixteen. He was getting bullied in school and it was hard for him. He always came to me to cry to because I was younger. It was hard watching him go though that but I thought he would be alright...

Hey...Just wanted to say i may not have ever or will ever meet you all out there but am here if you need a shoulder because you are all beautiful BLACK OR WHITE you are pretty/handsome and you can only be you...If you need help with...

My mama bottled up lots of feelings over the years. At my daughter's funeral, my mama cried. That said something. And it hurt me all the more. Mama was nearly 80 at the time.
A few years later, my brother died the same way. Self...

When my daughter's death was recent, I located and went to one support group meeting for survivors of suicide. I appreciated being able to talk about her, about the circumstances, about my feelings.

There were 5 of us at the meeting...

I was just lying down for a nap on a Saturday in the summer of 2003 when my mom called. She numbly told me about a phone call she just received from my oldest brother's girlfriend. He had not been heard from in several days, so this...

We met when we started working at the same company at the same time. we hit off great, and we became the terible twosome at work, we where unseperable.

He was married with 2 beutiful children, but in a broken down marriage, and i...