My Best Friend Committed Suicide

Dawn Stergin
6 min readMay 17, 2020

Her Suffering is Over. Ours has just begun.

Photo by Ian Espinosa on Unsplash

The US has one of the highest rates of suicide among wealthy nations with about 123 people killing themselves each day. It’s a national health crisis. How could we not have saved her?

I want to scream at her to take it back. I want to run to her house as if that will put me back with her. I want a rewind. I want her not to have murdered…

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Dawn Stergin

Former addictions counselor, empty-nester, activist, animal lover, writer and lover of what it means to be human.