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When objects connected to suicide become complicated comfort items

I cleaned my brother's gun collection out of his house after he shot himself but I kept one because holding it makes me feel closer to him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tools of death can paradoxically become vessels for maintaining connection with the deceased.

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“Where Are You with Suicide loss — the particular grief?”

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