I found out last night that a friend of mine in America killed herself shortly after the election results were announced.
She had a health condition that was painful and disabling, and which required daily medication to manage. And, from what I can gather, she died because she knew she would not be able to afford that medication if Obamacare was repealed.
She was a wonderful writer, a collector of folktale retellings, and an adopter of rescue cats. I’ve known her for fifteen years online. I never met her in person, and now I never will. But that did not make her less of a friend.
She is not the first casualty of this election, and she won’t be the last.
Lest we forget.
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Please, everyone, look after yourselves and each other. And if you are not coping, please call someone.
(The link above has a list of suicide helplines for countries all over the world (the USA ones are in the right sidebar).
