Thank you everyone for your kind words.
It came as such a shock to us all, as it really didn't seem like there was anything he couldn't talk to someone about. However sometimes sadly you just get sick of the simple things in life becomming crippling because you suffer from health issues (fulminant UC) that effectively have you stuck inside. For someone who was always fit and active, that can be a real issue.
Having dealt with the other side of suicide myself in the past, I've been able to add a different supportive viewpoint to the families tragedy. By that I mean assuring them that there is absolutely nothing they could have known, done, or said, that might have prevented this. Unfortunately when you're in a spiral and your minds made up, only physical interaction (being manhandled out of that situation), can change things.
Wifey and I had a good talk about things today, and (in addition to her own grief counselling sessions), wants to better understand how she can assist her mother moving forwards. She actually made a very good point that it could have been far worse had her Mum come home and found him still alive, but with life changing injuries.
I added that if he was disturbed from this attempt, he could have tried something even more extreme to end his life.
The sad thing is, suicide is climbing as a cause of death (in 2023 the 15-44 age group it was the leading cause of death), yet still we (as a country), have so much farther to come, on something that (unlike other causes of death), is incredibly hard to catch and counteract. At least with most other causes of death, there are warning signs beforehand.
