The Second Arrow, Grief After Suicide Loss-A Memoir

I hate you, Mom." There It was—in her daughter's journal, written the night she took her life. The detective told her it was part of the "suicide note." Roberta opens the journal, then closes it, unable to process this enormous loss. "Suicide notes are overrated," she tells us.

What do you do when a loved one dies by suicide? How do you cope when there is unfinished business and they go out angry—angry at you?

She had already lost one child, Lisa, 17 years before, in a car accident. There...