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From: annab@azure.UUCP (A Beaver)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: countering suicidal tendencies
Message-ID: <76@azure.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 13:52:44 EST
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> Some years ago one of our friends decided to commit suicide (because of a
> 
> We ended up having a "party" of most of the guy's friends.  We didn't try
> to tell him that life was wonderful.  We DID tell him that we were going to
> be vicious and mean and not let him get anywhere near the door or windows.
> We also did normal party-type stuff, including introducing him to a new
> roleplaying game (one of his hobbies).  And told him we liked him.
> 
> He was awfully imprssed by our concern, and eventually decided not to
> commit suicide after all.  At which point the thing turned into a normal
> party, and went on for the rest of the day.
> 
> --Lee Gold

	I had a similar experience,
	Just about the time I turned 25, I found out that my brother (2yrs
	younger) had eaten about 25 valliums(sp?) in more of a cry for help
	than anything else(I was told just get real sick with them, as he
	did.)
	  My brother was a single parent, (his wife had left him with a 1 1/2
	year old boy she didn't want) and he had lost his driver's licence
	and was fired from his job.(he had to have the licence to work the
	job) I realized that I had kind of lost touch with him and hadn't
	really talked with him for a while.
	  It happens that our grandmother had left us savings accounts in a
	bank in Tacoma, Wash. , that we couldn't touch until we turned 25.
	So I planned to drive up and get it out and asked my brother to
	come along as a relief driver. It gave us ample oportunity to talk,
	as we kept each other awake and I got to get in a few 'sisterly'
	suggestions. I also ended up lending him $100. of the $186. that was
	in the savings. We partied on the rest of it and I broke out even on
	the trip. No, actually, I came out way ahead. My brother got some
	insurance for his car and got his licence back. And the same week, a
	friend of his got him a job working in a lumber yard. (he still works
	there) The next year he made me a real nice linen chest ( I wouldn't
	let him pay me back, he insisted) and now he and his 9yr old son 
	live with a real nice lady and her daughter.
	  The thing that still gets me is that we never really thought we
	liked each other(you know how brothers and sisters argue) until we
	had a need to help each other.( I had been going through what I
	thought was too much, till I talked with him that weekend) I found
	out that I had it pretty good in comparison and realized what a nice
	guy my brother really was.

		This ones for keeps.

	 Annadiana Beaver