Suicide

I talked with a lady yesterday, about my age, who had lost a son to suicide about a year ago. She is obviously heart broken. As I can understand. But it made me stop and think about guilt.  I don't have any guilt with Korry's accident and death. It was totally out of my control.  But I imagine if I had a child who committed suicide, I would feel so very guilty that I didn't do enough, somewhere along the line.  And I don't know how it would be to live with that.   This being said, this woman I was speaking with said her son (30 yrs old) was a good boy, no drugs, or problems like that. He was financially stable and had a good job.  For whatever reasons his girlfriend of over 8 years broke up with him and he was devastated.  Apparently this woman had been staying with him (out of state) and came back home and was unable to return soon because she became sick with the flu. This was the time the son decided to commit suicide. This is awful enough, but he sent his mom a text "you never came back" and THEN committed suicide. There is no way to imagine the grief this woman must be suffering compounded with the guilt of that text.  It broke my heart for her.. I can't imagine the loss in this poor woman's heart.