No gentle deathbed parting, this death by suicide. Though most will one day get on with our lives with less difficulty than might be imagined, we survivors have also been handed a life sentence. We will move on and yet...
...Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar
That can be broken and again you feel
Grief as total as in its first hour.
--Elizabeth Jennings
Amidst the disbelief, suffering, and anguished questioning; amidst the terrible missing, the hole gashed in one's heart; amidst the agonizing guilt, a commitment to life must be made.
Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
--Douglas Dunn
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