Suicide has always been a strange topic for me, having self-harmed in the past and having known how even unintentional actions can cause an accidental death. It’s always scared me, as I think it scares everyone else. But today, when my mum told me that someone had committed suicide, I was stilled. Albeit this person wasn’t someone we personally knew, and was actually an actor, it still shocked me.
I couldn’t go back to the movie I was watching immediately. So I’m here, just writing my shock out.
I can’t imagine what this man went through that drove him to that point. I can’t imagine his thoughts while he decided he wanted to die. I can’t imagine what his family is going through right now. I know that there is nothing I could’ve done personally, because I didn’t even know him.
But this really opened my eyes to the value of life and the value of the loss of it.
Memoirs of a Muse 