Stories/Letters
The following stories and letters have been written by people bereaved through suicide.
Names have been withheld.
It’s been 4 long years
It's been 4 long years my brother since you left us. Life was so hard and so painful for you that you felt it was easier to take your own life. I think about you every single day. I have shed more tears than I care to admit and have cried myself to sleep many nights....
Bec’s letter
Where do I begin? Sometimes I am so grateful for this awful event. I’m awful to think like this I know. Before you died I had no idea who my real friends were, or what people in my fam-ily really thought of me. I had no understanding what it was like to receive...
Tim’s story
Being asked to write for the newsletter is one of the most difficult and confronting times of my life. Where do you begin, what do you talk about, every loss is so individual so driven by hurt and sorrow. So why write? Our daughter lost her partner Adam some two and a...
Grief and Forgiveness: How To Start A New Year
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions any more. I see them as a recipe for failure. When my husband first died I bought a plaque that said, “Have An Adequate Day.” It made me laugh - but I also felt it was something I could live up to. I don’t like setting expectations...
Bonnie’s Letter
Hi all, Bonnie here. Welcome to another month of the BTS newsletter. This is my first time writing the front page as I normally take care of the youth page and the compiling of the newsletter. I hope you had a nice and relaxing long weekend for Easter. A lot of us get...
Sue’s Story
Hi Everyone, I would like to send a warm hug to my fellow survivors and also share some of my journey following the loss of my beautiful son Ben. Ben took his life on the 29th of January 2008. He was one day, one month off turning 29. My life as it was prior to his...
Jesse’s letter to his father
I'm so confused. If I want it that bad, I should be able to have it. But I can't, not yet, too many other choices to make. I don't even know which one I want. But they shouldn't be classed as an item, never classed as an item. Why am I losing sleep over it? It...