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I’M HAUNTED BY HIS SUICIDE

Q I recently found my boyfriend of two years in his home – he’d tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. He was still alive when I found him and I tried to keep him alive while emergency services were called but on arrival the paramedics declared him dead.

At that stage I was full of blood and on the verge of collapsing. The worst of it all is I don’t know why he wanted to commit suicide. He didn’t seem