After your loved ones suicide, you begin the fall into the spiral encircling the most traumatic period of your life. The shock element of this type of death, with its un-established patterns of behavior are about the most difficult that you will ever experience in your own survival.

All of this we (The Vigil's) learned for ourselves after our eighteen-year-old daughter, Mia, jumped to her death from the San Diego Bay Bridge in San Diego, California.

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By Al Vigil

Some life events are happening in my life now that are bringing up the pains associated
with losses of lives. 'New grief' of course brings up 'past grief.'

We're taught that we should love others as much as we love ourselves. Often times this is at best a difficult if not impossible task. Alright I'll say it out loud: I have found it hard to love some people that I don't
like. But, then we give ourselves guilt with the 'shoulds.'

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