I’m very sorry to hear about your husband. One who spent many years in the mental health field, I think I worried most about potential suicide in the people we worked with. Objectively, many had so much going for them and to live for, but occasionally just about the time we thought we had them convinced of those facts they would go right ahead and end it all. We would tell ourselves “if they want to do it there’s nothing you can do to stop them”, and while maybe that was a bit to try to make ourselves feel not so bad about what had happened, sadly in many cases it seemed simply the tragic truth.....
Thank you. Las Vegas discussion on the Book of Faces involving some younger family members. They seemed to think that not having access to guns would have changed the outcome. I informed them that they do not know enough about suicide to make that assessment,and all they know about guns is:guns are bad! We must take them away. They don’t know that there were at least 3 other ways he could have done.
They don’t know that, before my tragic boating accident, I inherited an almost obscene amount of things that go boom. My boating skills suck! I also informed them that mine is the only voice for my husband, -and he would be so ticked that he was being used as a statistic. I told them, NOT privately because I want people to learn more about suicide and how the survivors should be treated, how hurtful their posts were. As sometimes really happens, we all took the classy way and the posts were deleted.
They don’t know that I had the gun destroyed, my hubby was so considerate that he used a registered but unknown to me Saturday night special. I’m the only one with registered handguns-I was (and still do) carry one every day, and my other one... he left the safes open and made sure that my pistol was the first thing I saw...so that I knew, even before he had been found, that he protected me. Silly sweet man, he even called me to tell me where to send the cops, he stayed on the phone withme long enough to know I would be in another county... 911 records come in very handy, all so I wouldn’t come under suspicion.
Wow!! Sorry to use the thread as a couch, sometimes it just bubbles out. Now, I must get back to studying my sea charts, looking for that stash!