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Name:
Michelle
Warren' from Beragh, Omagh,
Co. Tyrone'
E-Mail:
melaniewarren1@btinternet.com
My
Story:
'On Boxing
Day 2003 I got a phone call
that broke my heart! My mother
had committed suicide after
she had been left home the
night before. She was only 40
years old. I was 22 at the time
and I had the dreadful job of
telling my only sister who was
17, my grandmother and my two
children.
We had all
been out together on Christmas
night and we had a great night,
one of the best we had together
in a long time. My mother ,
my sister and me were very close
more like three sisters that
anything. I had been left home
first, my sister staying at
her boyfriends house then mum
was the last to be left home.
The next morning
her husband( she had recently
remarried) rang and told me
over the phone that he had found
her in the shed, she had hanged
herself. It will be five years
this Christmas and nothing has
been the same since she’s been
gone. You do find it a bit easier
as time goes on but nothing
could ever fill the gap that
is now there.
My children
are now 6 and 8 and they do
not know what happened to their
grandmother who they loved and
who doted on them and spoilt
them when she could. They always
talk about her and the things
they did with her. I just dread
the day when it comes the time
to tell them what really happened.
There is also a great fear in
me that they will forget her
as they were so young when she
died.
It is a very
hard thing to deal with. Unlike
some my mother did not leave
a note, not one that we seen
anyway. We had known that she
was unhappy but we did not realise
the extent of it. We just wish
that she had been able to talk
to us more ,even if she had
someone else to talk to maybe
things would have been different.
Sometimes people find it easier
to talk to strangers about things
like that than people they know.
Suicide is
becoming a much too common way
for people to die and I for
one would love to be able to
help prevent it and bring awareness
to people.'
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