Many of these same people who bereave the loss of a loved one to suicide are very likely the same people who weren't there for the person who was suicidal when they needed them most.
That's not meant to be a blanket statement, but that is typically the case.
'I wish I had done more, if I did, they'd still be here.'
I was molested by my mother, and I know for a fact that other members of my family had endured the same thing. They did nothing to challenge my mother. They are just as complicit in act as my mother was. I promise you, if I CTB'd tomorrow, these same people would be at my funeral trying to carry my casket saying the same shit.
'He was so selfish, he took his life.'
No Motherfucker, I wasn't selfish. Where were you when 5 year old me needed you. Where were you when you knew my mother was not feeding me? Where were you when you knew my mother was doctor shopping? What do you mean, suicide destroys lives? What about how my life was destroyed? Where we you bereaving people when my life was being destroyed? Oh right. No where. Because it didn't matter.
And in some cases, there are people who have tried their hardest, and it does affect them unfairly. Make no mistake, the suffering and anguish that every member here has suffered is an absolute tragedy. The way that many of us have been made to feel given what we've experienced. That fact that many of us will CTB is completely unfair. Unfair to us. Unfair that we were born into the shitty world and circumstances that we were. Unfair that we had to suffer and endure constant pain from things we had no control over. Born broke, impoverished, abused, with some mental illness, or whatever the case.
No one here deserves to have to take their lives. But it's the same people who 'Bereave our losses' that voted to take away affordable and accessible mental healthcare. It's those same people who were too busy for us. It's those same people who wouldn't walk that extra mile for us, when we truly and desperately needed them too.
If they want to stop bereaving suicide, tell them to start giving a shit about the person before they are gone.
/Rant