[Intolerant in NJ]

Just before the end, “He was doing so well,” she says. “He was looking forward to making up his missed credits, graduating and starting film school......Counter-intuitively, many suicides show some dramatic improvement just before completing the act - it's as though they regain some of their energy and ability to focus their efforts which then carries them forward to what they've been contemplating for a long time - a very sad case.....

[blu]

My husband spent his last summer going to every reunion, party, wedding. He was so up!! It was a joy to spend all that fun time with him. Then, in Sept when there was more rain than parties, he left us. Our boys and I call the summer of ‘14 “Dad’s Farewell Tour”. He got to see everyone who was important to him, and he let them think his was a wonderful life. It really was...I wish he’d stuck around for the second act.