Reblog from Jill’s Experiences
Three short letters by a bereaved father.
The first, he wrote to our son after he had done the worst thing a child could do and ended his life.
“Dear Doron,
Of course we miss you terribly. But, we are relieved that you have found eternal peace. You bore your suffering bravely and you did all you could to continue living. But, when you realized that your suffering had to end, you took the only way out. I love you and want you to know that both your mother and I forgive you for taking our son away from us.״
Your father.”
״Dear Doctors,
“I thank you for all you tried to do for my son. Hopefully, in time, human knowledge will progress to a position where seriously ill psychiatric patients will be able to be helped. Unfortunatelyyou failed to give me or my son the feeling that you…
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Thank you for re-blogging this Linda…
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You are welcome. Everybody needs to be reminded that depression is a family disease and suicide takes its victims just like cancer, except society blames them, not the disease.
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Yes…there are few things as bad as having a debilitating illness that you don’t understand, can’t quite manage, and for which you are blamed.
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Double punishment for the innocent!
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It’s awful…And made more awful by the fact that the means for knowing better is at most people’s fingertips in our Nation.
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Right!
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Thanks for posting this. Her site is very interesting.
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You are welcome. I thought so, too.
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