This.

It’s so disheartening.

Dear god. I’ve never seen this - it is regrettable.

I’d sing the Camp Old theme song, but I forget how it goes...

Thank you. It’s not something I’d wish on my worst enemy.

Please don’t.

The numbers for the hotline are all through this thread, so I won’t put them here again. Instead, I want to share what it’s like to be the one left behind.

My husband shot himself in the head at our home. The memory of finding him is still vivid after 20+ years. The aftermath of his loss reverberates to…

Yes, it was (and as I said, that was just the tip of the iceberg) and it took me years to get over/learn to live with it. My MO was to try to do the right thing at all times - being able to look myself in the mirror and be OK with it was my litmus test. The only thing I said to the brother is that one day there would…

Thank you. Death leaves enough pain to go around, and tends to bring out the best and worst in people. Suicide just makes it all WORSE because people have to have someone to blame, and that someone is usually the spouse or SO.

Thank you. Death leaves enough pain to go around, and tends to bring out the best and worst in people. Suicide just makes it all WORSE because people have to have someone to blame, and that someone is usually the spouse or SO.

Years ago I was the young wife left behind absolutely stunned and in shock after a husband's…

"The Comic Irony Injury" - I was running to open a door for a crippled old man.

I've always thought JGL could play the hell out of Heath Ledger in a bio-pic.

My favorite repository for recipes like these is The Gallery of Regrettable Food... Regrettable Food Indeed

Good god. Another former Carmel person here. I used to babysit Michael and his brothers. They were all holy fucking terrors, although Stephen grew up full-on fabulous.