Hello. I didn’t want to comment but I have lost three family members to suicide. I’m all about suicide prevention. My cousin hung her self on December 20th, 2010. She left behind a one and half year old daughter. We all help raise her now. My mother hung her self on February 17th, 2015. I was in treatment at the time and had just talked to her on the phone. That one was super hard. I went back into drugs and a dark place for a couple months. I thought about it myself so many times. I finally cleaned up again on my own, moved off the reservation and started my own family. I have been clean for two years and I have a 13 month old son My cousin, , who is T’s other brother, hung himself on December 8th, 2016. The cops won’t tell us much but they did do an autopsy and said it’s a suspicious death. He was on drugs at the time and because of the way the people acted in the house who found him they think someone else did it but they haven’t said anything to us. The FBI and Feds were involved. He leaves behind a son who is 5 or 6 but a family adopted him when he was just a baby. His mother was addicted to drugs and that’s how he was born so she didn’t want him. T has no say so and didn’t know about it until a month or so later because he was in jail. I go to the suicide prevention walks/conferences around South Dakota as much as I can. Our family has been thru so much these last years. Suicide is big on the reservation right now. There have been a lot, not just my family. I just wanted to share my story. Thank you.
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