Suicide.

[RYL]

Someone I know committed suicide. So I have every right to talk about this subject. Statistics show that your chance of committing suicide increases when you personally know someone who committed suicide. My father said my mother died because of a disease, a disease called "manic depression". I love my mother. I still miss my mother everyday. I think about her everyday. As I got older, I realized she didn't die because of "manic depression", she died because she had no hope. This is what "I" believe. And then I saw this quote and I hang it up my wall and I want to share it to you guys. Hope it helps.

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson