Mik-key, I have to say that your post has deeply touched many feelings in me. Sadly, I too am on both sides, unfortunately more than once. My mom took her life 38 years ago when I was 21. I still remember that day, what I said when I got "the call". Amazing that my dad or my sister don't remember that day. Sadly last year my cousin took his own life at the age of 44. It is still a topic not to be discusded in my family all these years later. Maybe, just maybe if we talked about my mom's suicide, my cousin would have known the pain we were in. I'll never know, nor will his daughter know her dad, or my mom know my son or grand-buddies or them know what a loving person she was.

It's a wor.d full of whys, could I have, and all the questions with no answers. I just wanted to let you know that I understand and my heart aches for all of us.