September is Suicide Awareness Month. Suicide is frightening, whether you are thinking about it for yourself, or know someone who is. Suicide is final, the end. A life is lost – the hopes and dreams, the talents and gifts, the plans and expectations -- all gone! And this life had meaning; the person mattered. But somehow, someway this person couldn’t see this, couldn’t see continuing into the future.
And it is devastating! Bewildering! Devastating -- a hole in their lives that will never be filled. Bewildering family and friends are left with questions that will never be answered; a lack of closure, of never really understanding.
Then there are those in the community who knew the person, maybe not well, but still a human, a community member.
