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First reactions-shock, disbelief, despair & relief

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• Dying & bereavement >> Bereavement due to suicide >> Lost a partner, husband or wife >> Patricia - Interview 4 >> A speaker at a conference organised by Cruse told Patricia that after all she had been through he would expect her to feel a sense of relief, as well

Patricia’s husband, Andrew, had had depression for years. A number of times he had taken an overdose or tried to gas himself and then sought help. In 1994 he died in a car, due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Patricia found support via Cruse & SOBS.

• Dying & bereavement >> Bereavement due to suicide >> Lost a parent >> Lynne - Interview 26 >> Lynne loved her mother, but having spent about ten years helping her mother live with mental illness Lynne says that she almost felt a sense of relief

In 1981, when Lynne was 19, her mother drowned in the bath at home. It seems that she took her own life. Lynne felt her mother had been let down by the professionals who had been involved in her care. She has found support from friends & colleagues.

• Dying & bereavement >> Bereavement due to suicide >> Lost a parent >> Gillian - Interview 37 >> Gillian’s father was in pain and distressed towards the end of his life. His death, by assisted suicide, was in some ways welcomed by his family.

Gillian’s father, aged 84, had an incurable disease. His motor neurone function was getting progressively worse. He needed constant care, and wanted an assisted death. In 2008 his family took him to Switzerland, where Dignitas helped him to die.