Month: September 2015
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, Yesterday My Friend Tried to Commit Suicide
September 11, 2015
Is it ironic, coincidental, incidental or deliberate? It doesn’t really matter. It happened.
Yesterday, before 6am, I awoke to knocking at my door. In a haze, I woke up to my housemate telling me that one of our friends, CJ (name changed) was committing suicide. I’m not even sure I comprehended her as I was very groggy. All I remember is saying, what?! and her flashing her phone at me to a Facebook post our friend posted. She had posted various things but the main part was that she had decided to take her own life, taken a mixture of pills and had gone on a walk and that maybe someone would find a body.