Suicide: there is no “why” we’ll ever really know

Recently, I learned of the death of Michael Zaffino, who lived with my son and me during his senior year of high school so he could graduate with his classmates in June 2005.     
The death of a young person by suicide is always shocking, devastating, and unfathomable.  We look at our own mortality and how we escaped to live whatever age we are. And, of course, almost immediately after “Oh, my God,” we ask, “why.”

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