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When suicide leaves you with conflicting emotions

My husband died by suicide and left a note saying he loved me but couldn't live with his pain anymore, and I don't know how to be angry and heartbroken at the same time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Suicide creates a grief that must hold simultaneously understanding and abandonment, love and rage, forgiveness and betrayal.

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