take years to play out.

You learn to live with it. Hopefully.

..."how grief can persist," even though they channeled their grief into a foundation to help people. Just heartbreaking.

that, if something should happen to my son, they would just need to dig a bigger hole

He must have been beyond rational thought from the horrible grief to have left his wife behind to deal with yet another death. Such a tragedy.

that eventually the people they leave behind will be better off.

You're right: it isn't rational. But sometimes people (not you) think that suicide is a selfish act, but that isn't usually how the people see it when in the midst of their depression.

I say this as someone who lost a loved one to suicide several decades ago.

What you say is so right. But still so sad.

the tragedy, the article says.

Bad situation.

My heart breaks for her and those children.

$1 for kids, $2 for adults. A truly screwy, dissonant juxtoposition of emotion and memory.

that azzhat Alex Jones to this day says Newtown was fake. I wonder if all of that didn't play on Mr Richman. There's only so much an individual can take.

We all lose a parent, or a friend, or a colleague. It is expected. To lose one to murder is tragic. Nothing will ever top the loss of a child, which is devastating. To lose one to murder, I assume, is even worse than that. No matter how many other kids a person has, no matter how much they love their wife or family, no matter how good they are at their job, that void still remains and there is a feeling of failure to protect or fix your child. My heart goes out to those who survive the loss of Avielle and Jeremy. If someone reads this and feels like Jeremy did, I implore you to reach out to a professional, a friend, or even the hotline at 1-800-273-8255. Let one of us help you make it through another day, and we will worry about tomorrow when that gets here.

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Depression and suicide advocates ask us to switch our terminology so that we don't reinforce suicide as a sin and stigmatize those who might be suffering.

the pain ripples and ripples and ripples out

In addition to the tragedy of his daughter's death, apparently Alex Jones and his evil minions just hounded him to death and told him his daughter was still alive and that SH was all a hoax, etc. These people are beyond depraved. It makes me so angry to think of what they are doing to the surviving family members.

Slowly or quickly, either way...

What a sick country that worships these things.

This picture and story is heartbreaking.