When my mother died, I felt isolated I couldn’t remember knowing anyone personally who had lost a loved one to suicide. Millions of loved ones left to grapple with confusion and regret and anger and guilt, along with the particularly complicated grief that suicide leaves in its wake. That’s 800,000 hearts intentionally stilled. According to the World Health Organization, close to 800,000 people take their own lives worldwide every year. In America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a person dies by suicide every 13 minutes. There are more of us suicide loss survivors than some might think. My mother took her own life in 2009, and whenever I hear news of a suicide, it both reopens that grief and sends my heart hurtling toward the freshly grieving family, the family reeling from shock and pain.
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