Hello, long time reader, decided to make an account. I lost a friend to suicide. She used heroin to do it. My one and only experience with it, was with her. She suckered me into the encounter, while we were in a group home. She showed me everything prior, how to be safe, including filter wheels, then said IM was “safe” for me. She OD’d that night. I think she wanted to pass then and there, but I woke up from my comfortable slumber for some reason as she was turning a deep purple. We both left that home, she went back to live with her parents and I tried to put my own relationship back together. She called and asked me for a donut one day out of the blue, and drew me a little portrait. I didn’t know she was saying goodbye then, but a week later, she made her mom find her body. Had I known that’s what she really wanted, I’d have held her hand and let her pass with me. Mom shouldn’t have had to do that. I carry that now. I just, life is hard and it’s good to have places to relate to others with similar crap going on.