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MysticGmeKeeper: I felt an overwhelming sense of loss at that viewing.
Hundreds of people. Saddest of all, he probably never realized how much he meant to so many. Your friend's child, I'm sure, was just as blind to it. One thing I did not mention in the post and may have to edit in, the fact that we told our sons that it wasn't only you that you're hurting when you kill yourself -- you affect countless people.
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saul_relative
on June 7, 2005 at 7:49 PM
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Saul
...my life has brought me face to face with death for as long as I can remember. I have attended many children's funerals, but one of the saddest I think , was the suicide of a very close friends teenage son, an extraordinarily beautiful and gifted child...who it seems was just "too gentle to dwell amongst the wolves". He had tried to hang himself at 15 with a telephone cord, and drove off a mountain into forever at 18. And yes none of the overflowing crowd in the huge church, will ever be quite the same after Michael decision to remove himself from us.
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MysticGmekeepr
on June 7, 2005 at 10:00 AM
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