Have you ever had a friend or family member who committed suicide? How did it affect you?
An Ex-Girlfriend of mine ended up taking her own life several years ago when we were 15. I admit that my relationship with her was %30 sincere emotion and %70 to be near someone like myself. We both had our issues, but mine related to anger and hers to depression. We had been together from the age of 12 and she was my best friend/only friend. Her taking of her own life mellowed me out into a zombie for a long time, I blamed myself. I was the one who found her and sat with her until the cops could get there.
I realize now that no matter what she did, or how she did it, suicide was going to be the end result. She was just one of the ones that was never going to cope, no matter how hard she tried. I've since come to terms with her death and used it as motivation in controlling my own issues, which proved to be difficult but not impossible.
Gruesome as it was, her suicide helped me cope even though it almost lead to my death as well.