To be fair, the pain of losing a loved one, particularly a child, to suicide must be absolutely agonizing and unbearable. I can't blame many of the parents of Fixthe26 for feeling the way that they do. That being said, I have to wonder if the pain would be any more bearable if their child had died by hanging, jumping, or gunshot. These are the "traditional" methods of suicide, for lack of a better word. The one thing these folks have in common is that their child died by using SN, which, to be honest, most people don't know about as a method until they come on this site. That is certainly how I found out about it. Now what I'm about to say may not be very popular on here, but I'm going to say it anyway. I think we should all have a little more compassion for these people when we talk about them. They're dealing with profound grief, after all, and our loved ones will be in their exact same situation if and when we die by suicide. Note that I'm not using "ctb". I'm calling it what it is - suicide, because ctb merely trivializes it. Yes, these were adults who made the momentous decision to end their own lives, but to these parents, they will always be their children and they'll never be convinced that they were acting in their right minds. While I support our right to choose, I think we need to be a little more sensitive to those left behind who have to deal with the aftermath of a death by suicide. So, I'm suggesting that we should try to rise above the hatred and be more empathetic with the Fixthe26 folks, rather than judge them so harshly in our posts.
