libroXshu quoted While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, …
Content warning content warning not really a spoiler, premise of the book - suicide
How do you tell kids that someone in their family is dead because he killed himself? How do you talk about suicide without normalizing it or vilifying it? ...[he] died today because he did not want to be alive anymore.
— While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger (63%)
this. so heavy. and also even if you don't have your own kids, you might still end up being the one in your family to have to do this. this author's experience is heavy all around.