When I was 10 my guitar teacher killed herself.
All pupils who had lessons with her were called into the school hall in the middle of class.
‘What’s going on?’ I remember a boy in front turning around and asking me.
‘I dunno, she’s probably dead,’ I joked.
She was.
We were told that she’d been ill and had passed away suddenly, and that was that.
However, a day later the girl I shared lessons with told me that the teacher had ended her own life. She found out because a family friend was the coroner – I’m not sure if she knew because her parents told her, or if she overheard them talking.
Thus, I found out all the details of how she did it. I later read about it in the local newspaper.
This was my first experience of suicide.
At 10 years old, with no understanding of mental health, and thinking the world revolved around me, I thought her death was my fault. I assumed because… Read the full story
from Metro https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/28/discuss-suicide-children-impacted-7578208/
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