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Personal Survivor Stories

 

Loss of Child:

"My Son, Michael Jason" by Marcia Bloom

"If We Only Knew, If He Only Told Us" by John Halligan

"Life After Suicide" by Stan Lewy

"Thoughts on the Untimely Loss of a Beloved Child" by Byravan Viswanathan

"My Turn: David's Death Doesn't Have to Be in Vain" by Inez Okrent

"This Mother Did Not Know..." by Doris Smith

"A Mother's Painful Journey" by Joyce Gatson

"Music for Our Wounds" by Michael Whitman

"Loss and Guilt, and Love: A Father's Story" by Bud Pazur

"Wind Beneath My Wings" by Karyl Chastain Beal

"From Anguish to Activism" by Linda L. Flatt

"One Mother's Story" by Mary Pat McMahon

"Letter to James" by Pat Peta

"Life is About Gifts" by Rick Kirchhoff

Loss of Parent (as a Child, Adolescent, or Teen):

"A Defining Day" by Jay Steinberg

"The Mother I Never Knew" by Margo Requarth

"A Day Only Years Keep At Bay" by Karl R. Bossi

"The Truth" by Chris Andrews

"And Still, Echoes of a Death Long Past" by Erica Goode

"Mosaic" by Tinka Markham

"Survivor Story" by Stacy Lynn Weber

Loss of Parent (as an Adult):

"Always Daddy's Little Girl" by Tina Rumps

"My Father's Suicide" by Tammi Landry

"One Brutally Cold Night in Chicago" by Carole Sharwarko

"Daddy's Little Girl" by Margi Finch

Loss of Sibling:

"Blue Genes" by Christopher Lukas

"Dream Brother" by Lizette Martinez

"From Beth's Side of the Tent" by Beth Alt

"Living with Darkness" by Jeffrey Harrison

"Losing Rebecca" by Vanessa-Shaw Finelli

"Martha" by Debbie Gisonni

"Feelings of Love, Pride, and Sorrow" by Holly Mendelson Giulianti

Loss of Spouse/Partner:

"The Day My World Ended...and My Walk Out of My Darkness" by Mary Rose Paterson

"Bird At My Window" by Kenya Napper Bello

"Survivor Story" by Penny Coleman (Veteran Suicide)

"Suzy's Story" by Suzy Gray

Loss of Friend:

"Sister of My Heart" by Stephanie Levin

"Love, Loss and Survival" by Erik Hendin

Story of a Family

"One Family's Tribute" by the Farrell Family

Explaining Suicide Loss to Children:

"The Gift" by Barbara Rubel

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