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patrickat:

When someone commits suicide by traffic or train, send some of your sympathy and prayers to the person who was behind the wheel who has to live with that for the rest of their life, too. That’s an awful thing to force upon someone innocent of any involvement in your situation just because they happened to cross your path.

Send them to the people who have to investigate the situation, and aren’t allowed to look away. To the ones who have to come and take the body away, and who have to tell that person’s family and/or friends. To the ones who love those people, and support them through the aftermath.

As much as we want to tell ourselves, no one will notice if we’re gone, what we really mean is our absence won’t hurt.

And in either case, we’re wrong. We’re always wrong. However hard it is to remember that

we’re always wrong. Someone will notice. Someone will be hurt, by your absence, specifically.