Nature builds in this need to nurture and protect your children. They hurt you hurt. Their pains, their sorrows, their well-being you feel with them like no other person you love. Whatever happens to them, happens to you. Then there s the matter of how you lose your child.
Suicide is devastating.
There s nothing natural about it. It s not the result of the body breaking down by disease, it s not an untimely accident even. When it s a choice a person makes to end their human existence to escape from seemingly unsolvable problems, then it s a mistake. Now, seven years later, I begin Bruce s story with a letter that I hope reaches him, wherever he is somehow. My dearest Bruce, I know you had to be in the deepest kind of pain to do what you did.