All Comments on 'Counting Backwards'

So well written. No one can ever completely understand why someone falls so low as to commit suicide.

My prayers to all who have ever had to live with this pain.

A friend of mine suicided, about ten years ago.

His widow asked me to read a poem at the funeral. It was the one of the hardest things I've ever done. Finding the right poem. Then reading it, looking at his widow, his daughters and son, my tears flooding.

Thank you for sharing this.

I could feel the pain all over my soul. Well written and heartfelt...

beautifully written

I keep telling myself that and at times it helps. My brother committed suicide 33 days ago.

I feel the pain in your writing. It was excellently done. The emotion came through which was your point. Well made, well done. I look forward to reading more from you. Please share your talent with us. It is appreciated.

A painfully beautiful story. Thank you for sharing such an intimate part of yourself. I do hope that putting your thoughts and feelings in writing has helped you deal with this tragic event.

Heart, soul, and mind thoughts that hang true, and real. I counselled students who contemplated, attempted, and rare resulting bereavement. Impacts even modern psyche denies or queries. This catches so many issues, but in your unique sense. None match. Well set in raw emotion and acts. Remorse incorporates guilts of if, but, and maybe. You had to be you, in her life, which at some point i'm sure you'd figure out. And she made decisions in such light. I like to think Respects will in time recognise such. Final thought which I suspect you know well, she lives on in you, and all real close to her, even when you think you've forgot.

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