THE BACK STORY:
I found out something really messed up today, if you want to skip the back story, go down to where it says "Today". It is kind of a long story, but when I was 19 (I am 26 now) I had a friend with an intensely messed up sister. Their parents were killed violently. The sister saw them get killed violently. That messed her up horribly. She was put on suicide watches in an institution. She almost killed herself twice, prooving that the suicide watches weren't working. Yeah, she needed to be watched 24 / 7. With people the sister was perfectly normal and not insane. Leave her alone she gets insanely lonely, thinks bad things wants to kill herself.
THE KEEPER:
My friend got a girlfriend, he wanted to go out with the girlfriend, but the whole "my sister wants to kill herself if I leave her alone for 20 minutes," is not a good excuse. So he hooked me up with the sister as a double date sort of thing. We grew up together, so it was like a double date sort of thing. That lasted for a few months. It was fun, and I am everyone's therapist, so I thought I was doing so much good for her! My friend thought she was doing so well too. He could leave her alone for an hour to not kill herself. He would call to check up that she wasn't harming herself. However one of those times where she was left alone for I think it was like 3 hours. She never answered the date, so he went home, she wasn't in the house.
THE DRAMATIC ATTEMPT:
He called me to help find her. Yeah we found her at a bridge going to jump off into a river. I talked her down :-) I was quite proud of myself, but then she took a running head dive off of the bridge. I tried to hold onto her, I went with her. It was 20 feet to the water. I personally think we were in no chance of dying. After that, the state took custody of her, cause she was a minor, and she was instotutionalized. Three years after that, I heard she was much better, released and living a semi-normal life with my friend.
TODAY:
It is now 7 years later and I have not spoken to my friend in 4 years. He filled me in on what has happened over the past month. Apparently there is a warrant out for his sister for the attempted murder of her therapist. He also told me that now she has a 4 year old kid, which is wow! She can't take care of herself let alone a kid! Now she is on the lamb, with her kid, and she left a note at my friend's house telling him that she is going to kill herself... but first she is going to kill her kid. No one has seen her in a week, but it makes me think to just this weekend in Toronto, a woman threw her infant off of a bridge into freeway traffic, then jumped herself. Fortunately I am in IL, no where near Toronto, but if someone else did it. She might too.
So she gave life just to take it?