Sad story!

[FaerieGothMommy]

I was going to put this in Energy requests, but i'm not just asking for energy, if it's more suitable there, please move it.

This is real sad and i haven't been able to stop thinking about, but anyway, my mom came in from work lastnight and told me about a woman who recently left her work place.

She'd had a crap life as a child and her husband was an alcoholic, but she took redundency from work which got her quite a bit of money and she was due to start a new part time job, and she said she was going to enjoy life and relax a little.

Anyway, on Wednesday (her 58th bday) she took loads of pills & a bottle of wine, she survived, but on the Thursday she slit her wrists and hid herself to die, but her son found her, and she survived.
Sadly, on the Friday (while she was in hospital) she chucked herself off the top of the hospital roof, and passed away.

Now the first thing that came to my head was, WHY THE HELL WASN'T SHE ON SUICIDE WATCH? And, how the hell did she get on top of the roof?

Then i thought of how much pain she must have been going through to want to die so badly, i think aot of people after surviving a suicide attempt will then come round and decide it's best not to kill yourself, but she must have been sooo depressed and fed up to REALLY want to die. Were still not 100% sure why she actually wanted to kill herself as it seemed to everyone else that she was getting her life on track.

I just want to ask if you could say a prayer for her & her family. And keep her in your thoughts. I know she is at peace now, and i just hope she is finally happy.

FGM

[menolly]

That's so sad...
I'll light a candle and say a prayer for her family...

How does someone *ever* end up so lost?

[Nighthawk]

Oh my... I agree... try twice, and no one to watch??? Hmm, this is a sad story, and one that happens all too often, someone thinking there is no ne there who cares and all.... The hopeless feelings, lost, alone, afraid.... I am saddened to hear it... I hope this woman fins peace in this next phase...

[Morr]

this is very sad. I'm so sorry for her family, and I'm sure she's at peace now.
I'll definitly say a prayer for her tonight.

On a personal level, I can definitly understand that feeling of "being lost" and the "hopelessness".. I've never reached that deep levels of depression though... Even for me its hard to understand & imagine.
But I guess it was somehow, in a morbid sad way, meant to be.

I'm sure she's somewhere better now.

[Xeen]

Yeesh.

[Chesna]

This is such as sad story...I work with people who are ill and at times suicidal.. why they didn't put her on suicide watch we may never know.. but Iagree she should of been. Hopefully her family will try to get answers.. It is sad and hard when someone looks at life and decides its not worth living, especially when we are not clued into their pain and hurt.. hopefully we cantake comfort that she is in a place of peace, happiness and pain-free.. my deepest thoughts go to her and her family

Chesna

[Isildae]

I'll definitely be keeping her family in my thoughts today. I know that feeling of hopelessness so well, its frightening. There's such a fine line between wanting to live and wanting to die, and the barrier is so easy to cross.

When you're lonely, or the harshness of life comes to keep you company, you can feel that desperation. I'm just sad no one knew how to help that poor lady, and that no one could help her to feel wanted or loved.

That's the really sad part.

[FaerieGothMommy]

I'll definitely be keeping her family in my thoughts today. I know that feeling of hopelessness so well, its frightening. There's such a fine line between wanting to live and wanting to die, and the barrier is so easy to cross.

When you're lonely, or the harshness of life comes to keep you company, you can feel that desperation. I'm just sad no one knew how to help that poor lady, and that no one could help her to feel wanted or loved.

That's the really sad part.

Yeh, i agree! I keep thinking, after 2 suicide attemps, surely someone from her family thought she needed to feeled loved & cared for, and another thing we can't understand is why didn't one of her grown children stay with her in hospital.... It's really bugging me!

[Avalon]

What a painfully sad story. She really should have had someone watching her...where are all the social workers and psych consults when they are needed???? :mad:

[somberwillow]

Very sad and depressing :( I have had bouts of depression since my father passed away but never bad enough to be suicidal over it. Someone should of been there for her, a person in that state of mind should not of been left alone.

[Boogins]

How awful and how unjust. Her family is definitely in my prayers today.

[Druchii]

Sometimes families cannot comprehend or do not care why, and it could be because it's embarrassing, unnerving, or unwanted problems loaded onto them by this certain sick/depressed/overwhelmed person.
Secondly, this is in no offense to any of you in the medical feild, but many hospitals are not up to snuff. If a newborn baby can disappear under people's noses, then a person can die finally as she did. Unseen, unheard, and ultimately uncomprehended.
It's sad. Really sad.

[Klucky]

There was definitely something wrong with that hospital. I will light a candle for the family. Are you okay about this, FGM? :hugz: :(

-Klucky

[Old Witch]

I can't comprehend it.......but I'm guess I'm not the one to ask.......

My energy and prayers goes out to her family and friends.........

[FaerieGothMommy]

There was definitely something wrong with that hospital. I will light a candle for the family. Are you okay about this, FGM? :hugz: :(

-Klucky

Yes, i'm fine. I didn't even know her, but she was a good friend of my moms. It just makes me extremley sad to think about, and i just keep reminding myself, she will finally be at peace now, and if this is what she truely wanted, then so be it. Maybe, now she can start fresh with a new life.

[Klucky]

Yes, i'm fine. I didn't even know her, but she was a good friend of my moms. It just makes me extremley sad to think about, and i just keep reminding myself, she will finally be at peace now, and if this is what she truely wanted, then so be it. Maybe, now she can start fresh with a new life.

Yes. Like I always say, "Everything happens for a reason." But I still hope the family is alright.

-Klucky

[Eowyn]

That's a sad story... You really get to think a lot. I'll light a candle and think a little tomorrow since the day is over for me now and Im going to bed ;)

But seriously, there's something wrong with hospitals, most of them.

[bansidhe]

and schools... an friend of mine did pretty much the same thing, but from the roof of our school. i guess sometimes, you can try ur hardest, but people are smart, they always find a way to get what they want. i'll be thinking of her, and i hope she finds the peace that was denied to her in life.

bans.

[Juniecat]

That is awful, and I truly hope she finds the peace she was searching for. It does seem strange to me that no one from her family was there with her. As for the hospital staff, as someone working in the medical field, I can honestly say hospitals all over are PAINFULLY understaffed. There should have been someone there to watch her...but throughout that hospital there were probably a hundred other people who also really deserved around the clock observation and there just wasn't the staff available to provide it. This is a problem everywhere.

I know this brings no comfort to the families and friends...I will keep her in my prayers.