I am putting this here too.
Apparently last night the Coronado Bridge was closed while they talked someone down. I hear they called in a hostage negotiator. In all honesty, what they should have done was call up the survivors, the wives, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters etc. The ones left behind to let him see that suicide is not victimless. It’s selfish, unthinking, and cruel. Monday it will be 30 years since my father chose to end his life. June as a result tends to be a hard month, but I get by. For him it was minutes to end his life and then it took years for me to rebuild mine, years for my mother, my siblings to rebuild theirs. I don’t care if there are likes, or posted responses to this, and please don’t say you are sorry that’s not the point and everyone has an opinion on it. The point is at least on my end I wish we brought this out of the closet, instead of keeping it hidden. Stop making survivors feel ostracized in the face of God and society. Let us have a voice and make it known and heard. Maybe there might be fewer men and women on the ledge waiting to jump if they knew when they did it, they weren’t jumping alone.