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Originally Posted by Halfcan
Holy smokes that is horrible. Those poor kids.
One of the kids I coached in Basketball came home and found his Dad hanging in the back yard. No note, warning, nothing. It messed him up pretty bad and he was going down a bad path. I worked hard with him and he straightened out. He has kids of his own now. A year later another kid on my team found his Dad (my assistant coach) dead from an intentional overdose. It changed him from a Great kid to one that ended up in prison.
You are not just killing yourself, but killing a piece of everyone that you love.
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My uncle in-law killed himself on Christmas Day. My wife was asleep and missed the frantic phone calls from her Mom. I'm very thankful for this. He was a Iraqi Freedom vet and was masking his PTSD with alcohol. He was estranged from his wife and kids due to his drinking. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, he seemed to improve. He wasn't drinking and was spending a lot of time with his wife and kids (2 boys; 16 and 18) and deep cleaned their whole house. He never showed up to his sister's house on Christmas, she called, he answered and was really vague. She told us later that something just wasn't right so she called the police and had her husband, which was his best friend, to go check on him. When his friend got there the cops were there trying to talk him down outside the house. He was holding a pistol of some kind. His friend said that he just said, "Hey *****, we can talk about this." He replied, "There's nothing left to talk about," and then shot himself in the head. He was a great guy and I personally didn't realize how much of an impact he had on me in the short time I knew him, it left a huge scar on his family.