The People Who Stay

What suicide leaves behind for those who must go on living

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When someone dies by suicide, the tragedy does not end with them. What remains is a lifetime of questions carried by the people who stay.

This essay will not help my ranking as a humorist. Some subjects simply refuse the company of humour, and suicide is one of them.

The subject is not entirely abstract to me. I was adopted away as a baby, …