Whatever she does is ultimately her choice. You can’t hold yourself responsible for somebody else’s conduct. I don’t know what the best solution for her is, but I can tell you this: © Copyright 2014 Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW, All Rights Reserved. Only rarely, if ever, can words on paper make the illogic of suicide logical. For this reason, suicide notes that describe the person’s emotional state may become the proverbial riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a puzzle: whatever answers that suicide notes provide may lead to yet more questions. It can be hard to make sense of the depression and other painful emotions that the suicidal person endured, let alone understand how those emotions could demolish all desire for survival. When notes do go beyond mere instructions, the most common emotional themes include depression, guilt, shame, hurt, and anger, according to another study. “Instead of explaining why they are in a suicidal state, most relate to feeding the dog and taking care of the plants.” The mundane instructions found in suicide notes prompted a psychologist, Roy Baumeister, Ph.D to state in an interview: These instructions concern financial affairs, funeral arrangements, people to be notified about the death, and even trivial matters like cancelling the newspaper subscription.
The most common theme in suicide notes, according to one study, is instructions. This is because suicide notes seldom contain dramatic answers to painful questions. Rediscovering this note brought her great solace.īut many times, a note leaves people aching for more. In the first blog post that I quoted above, the writer Melinda McDonald did ultimately remember a note that her husband had written her – not before his suicide, but before his first suicide attempt. You may wish you had a window into your loved one’s mind in his or her final hours, perhaps even minutes, of life. It is natural to yearn for a suicide note in the absence of one. It is almost the expected protocol that someone who leaves unexpectedly, and without explanation, should leave behind a helpful note.” What Suicide Notes Do and Do Not Say of what? The phenomena of a suicide note is perplexing. “I did worry I might have overlooked a final message of…. I turned everything inside out and upside down, looking for a last communication. In the days he was missing, and intermittently after he was found, I vigorously ransacked Mottsu’s belongings. “I searched for a suicide note, not recently but back when I thought there might have been a note left for me. Another blogger who lost her partner to suicide wrote in a blog post (which is no longer online): Only 15 to 38% of people who die by suicide leave a note, according to results of 5 studies published in the last 10 or so years.įor survivors of the other 62% to 85% of suicides, the expectation of finding a note can lead to more pain.
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Thanks to movies and TV shows, many people believe that suicide notes are common, and that such notes provide answers to tormenting questions. The real world is quite different. Or just to see “I love you” one more time.
Maybe to be reminded of what a dire state my husband was in. It often times places blame, doesn’t make any sense, or just flat out, doesn’t bring ENOUGH love and affection to such a horrible situation.īut there are times like now, that I wish I could pull out the note, and read it. Through talking to other suicide widows, I know that the suicide note doesn’t always bring comfort. I have struggled off and on with the fact that my husband did not leave me a suicide note. Melinda McDonald, a blogger who lost her husband to suicide, wrote about this agony in a deeply moving blog post: Suicide causes so much devastation in the living – so many overwhelming feelings, so many should-have-done’s and could-have-been’s, so many questions.Īmid such heartbreak, many survivors also agonize about why their loved one did not leave a suicide note.
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