To Be AND Not to Be: Honoring a Life Lost to Suicide
âTo be, or not to beâthat is the question.â ~William Shakespeare
This Sunday marks one year since my friend took his own life. It both is and isnât a big deal. It is in the sense that we like to commemorate things: one-year-old, one year at a new job, one year since 9-11, one year sober.
It isnât in the sense that my to-do list that day includes âthaw and marinate chicken.â
When a person takes his own life, it creates a cosmic shift in the universe.
It also doesnât.
The first few days after a person takes his own …