Papa Was Here Buddy

>Be paramedic >Seen dozens of suicides in the last 8 years >The reactions of the loved ones are always bad >None is ever worse than a dad loosing his son There is not a thing in this world that is more depressing sounding than a man sobbing while clutching his sons lifeless body. I remember one who killed himself by shotgun slug after he came back from Iraq. There was nothing left of him, and his father got home just as we were getting ready to leave. I couldn't let him see, so I stood there and just didn't let him through. He went downstairs to the basement and clutched his sons old baseball glove, rocking back and forth, just saying "papas here buddy, papas here." Don't do it anons.

A paramedic recounts witnessing a father grieving over his son’s suicide, clutching the boy’s old baseball glove and repeating, “papas here buddy, papas here.” The grim, sincere story is shared as an emotional anti-suicide message and a deeply depressing reaction to someone considering self-harm.

• @eternalclassic / 22589 2022-11-05