Lifting the silence:Suicide out of the closet
Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 12:51PM
37.
Annette Dennis stared at the number and began to weep.
"I had a good cry about it," the London woman recalls, first laughing then losing her composure again as she explains why.
"I turned 38. I am older now than my big sister. She is my big sister. I am not supposed to be older. It goes to show you you never. . ." and Annette has to stop for a minute. You never get over it. She will never get over her big sister Diana killing herself.
When Annette recently sent out a media release to promote the annual suicide awareness walk in London, she signed off for the first time with not just her name, but the sentence "Survivor of her sister Diana's suicide in 1999 at age 37."
Despite the tears that sentence brought, it signalled to Dennis she was becoming more open about her sister's death. MORE HERE
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