A thirtysomething person has so much more to experience, and who is to say he would not have been in recovery by 40?

I know someone who must have been in his late 40s before he finally went to AA for the sake of his kids, and he has been sober ever since. Not just sober, but actively helping others get & stay sober.

Unless a person is terminally ill and in pain, there’s almost always hope for a better tomorrow.

Sending your friend healing thoughts.

I’ve lost count, there have been so many. I wonder sometimes if suicide is so rampant that everyone encounters it now and then.

Oddly, some I understand. My sister’s father-in-law, so sick with ALS he could no longer swallow.

But my friend with the one month old baby? How could she have had post partum depression so severe, and no one could even tell?

The one that bothered me the very most was someone I simply knew from work, a kind and gentle man whose parents were so important they ignored him. One day he hanged himself. He too had an alcohol problem, severe and torturous. Like your friend’s son, it was a road he went down, almost beyond or totally beyond his control.

hung himself earlier this year, he was 18… Just couldn’t cope anymore.. His whole family are in such acute pain through it, such an horrendous thing to happen. Your poor friend, as a parent my heart breaks for her. What agony she must be in. My thoughts are with her, take care…

This man had ruined his pancreas with the drinking and last year had horrible pain from it. He was told if he drank again it would come back and it would kill him. He did,and it did, and I think this was the biggest factor, just the pain and awful knowing he had so little control over his life that he decided to end it before he suffered through another bout with the pancreatitis. I don’t think he felt alone so much as simply out of control. Everyone liked him; he was a great guy with a massive problem. Now his mom is the one who is alone.