Did You Know I Would Miss You?
A Healing Journey
When I first set out to write this book a few months after my brother Stephen’s suicide in May of 2004, I thought it would be relatively straightforward. I had made a career as an educational writer, I wrote "Let’s Live!", a teacher’s resource to prevent teen suicide, which is still being used in schools throughout the world, and I wrote "Living and Dying: The Human Journey" for the Open Learning Agency in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I wasn’t afraid to talk about death and, as a woman on the sunset side of midlife, I figured I had lived long enough that I could readily give form to this event in a way that would help people facing a similar loss.
How wrong I was.
It has been more than humbling to realize that the person I have most needed to reach in the wake of Steve’s suicide is me. Not the writer who has served a lengthy apprenticeship with words. This self is at best an employee, at times an annoying employee who thinks she knows more than she does. The one I have most needed to reach is the young girl in me who has been crushed and silenced by sorrow. Silenced by the suicide of her little brother, her companion-at-arms...
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