Suicide

We entered seminary together in the fall of 2003. Over the years I took several classes together with her.

I wrote a joint paper with her in the winter of 2005 when we took the last UU Polity course that Peter Raible taught.

I remember her forthrightness, her humor, her heart for the poor. She volunteered at Tent City on several occasions. She participated in her church where she touched many lives.

She was a single mother of a 12-year-old boy. I remember she showed me her son's picture and told me how much she loved him.

I was at the grieving ceremony on Thursday night at the Woodinville UU church where I lighted a candle for her.

I am sad that she chose that final and absolute way to leave this world. I hope that her death will not be in vain. That through her death we will go deeper in our understanding of what it is to be there for one another, what it is to be a true community, in a suicide economy.