About Santa Fe Survivors of Suicide
Santa Fe Survivors of Suicide was formed in 2004 by Janet Schreiber, Ph.D., Director of Grief Loss and Trauma programs at Southwestern College, and Joan Murphy who was working with suicide prevention at the NM Health Department. We had both experienced suicide deaths in our family. Members of the Santa Fe community had told us that even though there were many suicides, there were no services for persons and families who had experienced suicide loss.
We have listed services and resources in the Resources tab..[see Resources]
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I don’t know why.
I’ll never know why.
I don’t have to know why.I don’t like it.
I don’t have to like it.
What I do have to do is to make a choice about my living.
The choice is mine.
I can go on living, valuing every moment in a way I never did before or I can be destroyed by it and, in turn, destroy others.
I thought I was immortal. That my family and children were also.
That tragedy only happened to others.
But I know now that life is tenuous and valuable, so I am choosing to go on living, making the most of the time I have, valuing my family and friends in a way never possible before.
– Iris Bolton