[Alffe]

Without your knowledge or permission, you have been inducted into a terrible and unique club. It is an exclusive club any one of us would pay untold amounts to have never taken membership in.

You are a survivor of suicide. Your relationship to the person who suicided is of little consequence. Whether your loss involved a husband or wife, son or daughter, father or mother, brother or sister, aunt uncle, or friend or whether you loved or hated the person is inconsequential. If there was an emotional relationship, or bonding, you have to deal with issues surrounding the suicide.

Your dues in this club have been paid for with the suicide. In dealing with this death, you have some specific rights and responsibilities.

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This is a portion of an excellent article from a July 00 issue of the SOS newsletter of Dane County. Mark Mitchell author.


I often post articles from this wonderful resource..it has been a great source of comfort to me over these many years. It is a quarterly publication of the Mental Health Center there.
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