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TW (suicide/OD) - how many people do you know who have died?

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Whichwhatnow · 02/06/2023 09:47

Didn't really know where to put this. I'm just wondering if I and my social group are anomalies in the amount of peers who have either killed themselves, OD'd or died of addiction issues? I've averaged at least two a year since I was 16 (now 38) and have had two suicides of good friends in just the last week. In one case the partner of the guy who died by suicide lost her partner in exactly the same way two years ago, leaving her with two toddlers in her early twenties. This is fucked up isn't it? The other suicide was my sister's ex, and she already lost her fiance to addiction issues a few years ago when pregnant. I feel like I have more dead friends than alive. Is anyone's else's social circle like this or is mine particularly toxic??

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DramaAlpaca · 02/06/2023 15:57

What a desperately sad thread.

I've only known two, both young men who I knew through my own sons. It has devastated their parents and wider families.

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