“Passed away” implies a peacefulness I hope she felt

I had forgotten my talent for compartmentalization. I’m taking 30 minutes to write, then putting this away again. I kept remembering it this week, then putting it away.

A friend killed herself last week, and I’m still not sure what I think.

Ostensibly, when someone commits suicide everyone blames themselves, and no one should. Of course I know no one could have saved her, that no one is at fault, that there’s nothing I could have done. Except there is.

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