“Our son Max suffered from an overdose”
No, your idiot kid killed himself.
Deal with it.
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I don’t guess you understand addiction.
Cold, heartless, cruel. Please, just try to find just a little compassion. It’s safe to say you’ve had the good fortune in life to not have to suffer a loved one destroying themselves with drugs or booze. How very fortunate for you. I envy you in that regard.
Ouch! The kid just graduated from college. He had a full lifetime ahead of him.
The kid killed himself with drugs, and his surviving family are collateral damage. Drugs are a victimful crime.
May his family heal from their loss.
hey you’re usually not but this time you’re a d.ck :)
Maybe he was lonely, never connected with anyone, and saw no point. Who knows.
At 22 that means a long time yet ahead of perceived (or perhaps real) emptiness. At 22, that could be overwhelming.
God have mercy on him, whatever this young man’s reasons for giving up.
If it was heroin then it probably came from Mexico. If this a sanctuary city then I salute Darwinism and nature’s law.
Be more charitable on the parents.
I guess that is one way to deal with it. If it were my kid I would announce a bounty on the dealer. The dealer would be happy to turn himself in rather than deal with me.
THAT is how you deal with it.
Suicide...
Yup.
And our govt wants to give 45 billion to people who will then tell other people not to overdose.
My husband was a VietNam combat vet. He got started on heroin in VN and continued when he got back to the States. When I met him, he was off of it, but sadly, over the years he would go back and forth - clean for a few years, a year or so using drugs, than back to being clean.
He died from heroin - technically not an overdose - he had been clean and when he picked up again at his usual dose; it was too much. I know because I went and sat in the ME’s office after I got the autopsy report.
My husband did not kill himself. He had an addiction which was fed by the VA itself when he couldn’t get heroin or delaudid. I tried to get help for him from the VA over and over again, but was told it wasn’t my problem, just the vet’s. The VA gave him the substitute drugs that he wanted by the bottle.
When he died, our son, a Freeper, was just a young teen. My husband and I were looking forward maybe to my getting pregnant again and having a 2nd chance at married life. He did not commit suicide, no matter what you want to think about those who die from overdoses.
I can assure you, we are dealing with it, even 20+ years after the event.