Do you personally know anyone who's committed suicide?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

58. A teenage next-door neighbor boy tried suicide...

... by overdosing pills, but he was unsuccessful. He was one year younger than me.

He father was WEIRD. Years later, when I saw the movie "American Beauty", the character of Colonel Fitts strongly reminded me of my teen neighbor's father (who coincidentally had also been a military officer). I was a regular friend of the neighbor boy when we were younger, but his father's very controlling and untrusting behavior made me avoid that whole family by the time I was a teenager.

My mother saw an ambulance appear in their driveway on the night he attempted suicide, so she called their house the next day. The boy's mother didn't reveal what really happened, but she obviously acted nervous and suspicious about the ambulance before politely ending the conversation with my mother.

About a week later, she called my mother and told her about the suicide attempt.

A few weeks after I was told, I spoke to the neighbor boy across the property-dividing fence while we were both outside. He mentioned the suicide attempt to me (which I obviously already knew about) and stated that his father was the problem. Yet he had then decided to hold onto life and just get the hell out of that house as soon as possible. He later found a job and moved out of that house before he was even 18 years old.