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- So suicide is not a
very palatable subject.

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It's become an epidemic.

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What we don't hear much about is

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what's the effect afterwards,

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what's the destruction and
the aftermath of a suicide.

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In a few weeks, it'll be 10 years

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since Don's suicide,

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and the choice that he made

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has caused rippling
effects that he had no idea

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would be caused.

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Our older son turns 25 in May.

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He's been missing since
September 20th of 2015.

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Our youngest son is a junior

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in aerospace engineering in college,

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and doing very well now,
but it wasn't always.

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But he had some rough roads.

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(sobbing)

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(sobbing)

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(sobbing)

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They will live with
the choice that he made

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for the rest of their lives.

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They say the average person has 44 people

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within their sphere of influence.

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If you help one person, it's helping 45,

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and it's exponential from there.

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Let's use the beautifully raw experiences

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from our lives, that we've gotten through

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to help those conquer

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those challenges,

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to remove that veil of darkness,

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those thoughts from their head

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that life would be better without them.

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It won't.

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I guarantee you,

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it won't.