ABSTRACT
For Simon to commit suicide was almost beyond my endurance. Yet nevertheless, we do endure, and we do laugh, and we do go on contributing to our family and friends, and that, I suppose, is the miracle. (Lois)
I count myself lucky in an odd sense, because I’m repairing damaged goods, and confident of being repairable. (Kevin)
In the weeks and months of their bereavement survivors may feel that they will never be able to live with what has happened. But gradually a way through may begin to seem possible. Two and a half years after his sister’s suicide, Peter can look back and see how things have changed:
It has got better, and it’s got calmer, and life’s gone on, and one finds one’s way through…I don’t believe you get over it, but I just think you learn how to accommodate it, and how to deal with it, and how to cope with it.
