Is There Life After Pain? A Mother’s Story of the Night Her Daughter Died by Suicide PART ONE

This is the question my eldest daughter posed to me the other day. When we both look at our lives at present, the answer to that question is a resounding, “yes”. But that road to get here was not easy. We both suffered an incredible loss when Kayla, my daughter, her little sister died by suicide in March, 2007. The blame, the shame, the hurt, the rage, the sorrow, the meaningless is all so unbearable. As a mother, to lose a child is an ineffable experience. There are absolutely no words to describe the hole that is in my very soul. As a big sister, who was the closest person on earth to Kayla, my older daughter’s loss was just as inexplicable and horrifying.

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