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Originally Posted by Zeraph
If I may ask Grasshopper Green? I've never met anyone who knew so many people that committed suicide. I'm curious if there is a correlation to how it is done, and how it is later perceived. (like your aunt). May I ask how each of them died?
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My brother, friend, and MIL used pills/drugs. My cousin shot himself. My uncle (mom's brother) also committed suicide when I was a child. He was a schizophrenic and hung himself. I didn't know him and have never felt negatively affected by his death, other than it made my mom sad.
Mental illness runs in my mother's family (obviously); my sister and mother both have been diagnosed with clinical depression and have both unsuccessfully attempted suicide. I'm the "normal" one. I've had bouts of depression my entire life, but I've learned how to better deal with them and experience depression less as I've gotten older. I've never seen suicide as a viable alternative. I'm not saying it's never crossed my mind, because it has...it's just never been an acceptable solution to whatever shittiness I've dealt with. I don't know why my viewpoint is different than those in my family. It just is.
As far as perception goes, it's been a mixed bag, but manner of death hasn't seem to affect people's personal opinions on the matter. Mental illness and suicide still carry stigmas and cause discomfort to many. From my personal experience, those factors play more of a role than the actual cause of death.