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by AlecSchueler 1060 days ago
...Where does it go?
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> I’ve decided to follow my son. There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone,” she wrote on an unverified Twitter account linked to her official account.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-...

heart breaking to hear :(

Can't really think of anything worse than losing a kid to suicide. The guilt, warranted or not must be crushing.
> Shane died in January 2022. A week later, following a series of tweets in which she indicated that she was going to kill herself, O'Connor was hospitalised.

Wikipedia

Many artists die from suicide. When a young artist dies, I usually assume drugs or suicide.
> I usually assume drugs or suicide.

And sometimes it's hard to discern one from the other.

Occasionally it's cancer though
My mind goes to suicide.