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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to high school with a girl who's parent had killed themselves and what I learned from three years of being around her is that parents should not kill themselves. It messed her up in so many ways.

Hopefully Leta can take the summer to process and get back to school in the fall. I hope both girls have some sort of peace about this at some point soon. Yes, I'm assuming Heather killed herself. [/quote]

You’re an ignoramus.  You might as well take tears to lean that people shouldn’t get cancer either.

She didn’t choose to have the disease she fought mightily for 15 years.  She tried literally every antidepressant.  She tried experimental treatments.  She fought to live with every fiber of her being.

She stayed as long as she could.[/quote]

No, actually one of my best friends mom died accidentally and my friend was much more mentally healthy. [/quote]

Not the person you're replying to, but:

You know one person whose one parent died one way, and the person had one specific mental health outcome. That example is individual and does not create a universal truth applicable to others. I'm glad your friend held up OK after his or her parent's accidental death. But bringing that up in response to this discussion is incredibly tone-deaf and zero help to anyone who has lost a parent to suicide. Or to an accident, either, actually.

Your friend was "much more mentally healthy" than...someone?,anyone?, whose parent died by suicide? Is that what you're saying? Not a useful example or data point at all. Your friend could have been devastated; the child of a person who died by suicide could "hold up OK." Impossible to predict well.

Not a useful comment like you think it is. [/quote]

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