According to Meriam Webster, collateral damage is the injury inflicted on something (or someone) other than an intended target. The word is specifically used to refer to military casualties. Are the people left behind when a person commits suicide collateral damage? Injury is inflicted on us. I do not believe that the person who committed suicide intended to inflict the hurt, guilt, anger, despair, etc. on the people that (s)he left behind. So, by definition, we are collateral damage.
I do not know where this came from or why it came to me, but I feel for everyone, like myself, who is collateral damage. I hope that we can work through our feelings and move forward in a direction that commemorates our loved ones that left us behind.
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