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Talking About Suicide | Helena Busia

When someone commits suicide, who is allowed to talk about it? I have never lost anyone particularly close to me. I have never known someone to take their own life. How do I therefore, have any right to talk about this? Isn't it the old saying- " Write what you know".  But I don't know.  In hearing the news of someone taking their own life, I feel intrusive to their loved ones and to the deceased, commenting or writing about their situation. I can hear voices saying " Well you barely knew her". I feel selfish talking about how it's affected me; how a girl I barely knew's death has made me cry quiet tears.  Nevertheless, I'm going to try and talk about this, in the best way I can.  I have been lucky enough to be part of a family through my theatre projects. A loving, crazy, slightly dysfunctional family, full of show-tune-belting theatre kids. Tonight, I found out we had lost one of the members of our family.  I didn'...