Keri's Couch: The difficulty of accepting that your son took his own life

Glynis Horning is a renowned Durban journalist who has worked for varying publications. 

One Sunday morning, whilst reading her newspaper, she was struck with the news of her child's death by suicide...

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Everything changes for you as a person, more so; a mother. 

Being a mother, she explains the process that she had to go through in terms of funeral admin and the surprising empathy she received, even from the South African Police Service as she submitted some documents.

The world at large is always sobered by the fact that people can choose to end it all and actually see through the decision. 

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Horning, her husband, Chris, and their younger son are still completely sobered by the then 25-year-old's death.

She speaks to Keri Miller about how she went about sharing her son's belongings and how they chose to clean her son's room. 

During that time, receiving flowers and visits meant more to her than it ever did because what could one possibly say or do in such a situation...

Support in the form of visiting and sending through those gifts really lights up the lives of the parents. 

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Take a listen as she describes the incident that changed her life forever:

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