Hello Hope,

I'm so very sorry to learn that you lost your Father. I am also very sorry
that you were the person who found him. Please try to remember him as the
wonderful person he was and not by the situation in which you discovered him


I lost my precious son on December 11, 1999. It will be 9 years for us
since he died. My Bri liked to *live on the edge* so to speak but we never
would have expected that he would die in such a horrible way. Brian was 22
when he died.

It was just a couple of years ago that I finally accepted how he died. In
the beginning, we thought that Brian had committed suicide, but it is not
true. There are only 6 people who really know what happened to him. Brian
s brother and his wife, Brian's best friend and his wife and my husband and
I. My parents still believe that Brian took his own life. I can't bear to
tell them anything different. My Dad is 85 and my Mom is 80. I don't think
they could accept the shock of knowing anything different.

I am so happy that you have found this group. Please know that you can vent
your feelings here and we all understand.

Peace & Love,

Sherry, Brian's Mom

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