[VaSteve]

Mike, I'm sorry for your loss.

I see a lot of these threads and I don't comment, but I spent a while reading some of the older ones last night.

A fellow in our circle killed himself last week (Tuesday). He was a friend of my wife from years ago and they weren't especially close lately, life sort of takes over with kids and all. We were on the Chirstmas card list I guess is the best way to discribe the relationship. I can't even say that I knew him very well, but it's bothering the hell out of me.

Much like me, he was late 30's with a wife and 2 kids. His kids are a little younger than mine....2 and 3 months. He had a good well paying job in the same field as me.

Apparently, he left the office in the middle of the day and jumped off the building.

In his case, it was such a violent act and seemed so rash. In fact, it didn't even seem planned, but I head he was suffering depression and it was affecting him at work.

My wife went over and visited with his wife last Friday with our daughter. She said it was hard to do (I can't believe she did it) but said it really helped the widow. In this world of facebook, it was nice to have an actual person show up and help out with the kids.

Sorry for the hijack.