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What a coincidence. I lost my mom when I was 22, and am now 37. She succumbed to breast cancer after it struck her at an early age, and she died when she was 46. I loved her and still think of her often.

I've never had much of a family or even a girlfriend to speak of for that matter, have battled severe depression most of my life, and life here pretty much sucks as far as I am concerned. However, I am not going to terminate my own life as I am a Christian, and believe that I have a higher calling, and a purpose to fulfill while here. But, I can relate to the viscous depression, and isolation felt by one who suffers from this form of mental illness, and can see how someone can be overtaken by it. It is indescribable, and not something they can "snap out of". Some people are also not capable of "reaching out" when needed. I think that satan and his lieutenants work overtime on those who he feels are the biggest threat to his nest here on earth.

I am doing ok, and suicide has never been an option for me. I am also praying for Chris.

Dear FRiend,
I both sympathise with and salute you. I've suffered with depression most of my life, until being diagnosed bipolar less than six months before I met Chris.
Chris lost his mother early, too, and never quite recovered. I was also his second wife, and we'd had our troubles. But I never gave up on him... I married him for life, I just never expected it would be such a short time.

I bow my head to those on this thread, gawatchman, who have enough faith to pray. I was baptised in the Episcopal Church (Church of England in my native, largely secular, country of Australia), but never had much of a religious upbringing. Sometimes I wonder though...