By Andrew Solomon — 2014
Every forty seconds, someone commits suicide. In the United States, it is the tenth most common cause of death in people over ten years of age, far more common than death by homicide or aneurysm or aids.
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CLEAR ALL
Sibling suicide threatens future potential, but doesn't have to destroy it.
Samantha recounts the grief she experienced after losing her brother to suicide.
Suicide-bereaved siblings suffer intensely. They also tend to suffer invisibly.
I grew up with mental illness in my family. I was the youngest of four siblings — Joan, Victor, Barbara and I — in a Syrian Jewish household. When I was young, Victor and Joan both died by suicide. These losses had, and continue to have, a profound impact on my life.