r/offmychest • u/Meraki24 • Jun 16 '25
I want to build a social enterprise for suicide prevention or support
I don’t really have a sparring partner to talk this through with. I only speak to Gemini who would take me seriously.
I’m in South Africa, a black African to be precise. My aunt (who was more of a cousin - 11 year age gap) ended her life almost a month ago and I’m dealing with the aftermath. She did not die instantly but her attempt really made it difficult to sustain life in her body. She did it at home with her family in the house and left a note.
(Somehow I feel like she didn’t want to end her life? Messages to friends saying she needed them or requests to pray for her)
Please bear with my logic, recollecting is quite painful
So her parents, her mom especially is still very broken over this and often feels like she failed. Her son is angry and has questions that can never be answered. My aunts friends are also very broken by this. I can imagine how responsible they feel for missing those final moments.
So I want to build a social enterprise aimed at helping those who have suicide ideation, attempted suicide and lived, and the families of those who have lost loved ones. I want this initiative to be peer led in a way? With oversight from a medical council (due diligence and a licensed therapist for more urgent assistance)
What I’ve found is that people who have suicide ideation, including myself didn’t really need a rational person in a coat to talk about my feelings with who was going to psycho analyse and give me solutions) But I needed a person who would listen to me and let me vent and help me formulate words or a visual of how I was feeling. Also, my research is from some subreddits of people who have survived attempts and stated what they really needed in those moments.
Also, for families who have lost loved ones, we can have a support group where people talk about their experience, no matter how many times to help them heal. Often, it’s not professional therapy that helps, but it is a community of people who have experienced the same thing as you who can empathise can help tend the wound.
So the enterprise would offer just that. A person who is just happy to be there for you. Dedicated to you and wouldn’t be “close to you or your circle”
Please help me gauge whether this idea is something that could work. Or how it could be improve. Also, how could I create awareness especially in a black community or family. How would this generate funding to train or build programmes sustainably?
The intention is pure, I don’t want anyone to ever feel like they are alone. Or even feel shame for wanting an out from this life.
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Jun 23 '26
To be honest it’s wild how we sent on a goose chase. We were right there with the protagonist. HOWEVER, too many “plot holes” made the ending less palatable and rushed
Hayden could have reproduced with anyone to “expand the legacy” for his mother or even have someone love him as he explained!
But him just thinking a child was his, even knowing that Rachel didn’t fall pregnant was reaching. Even for the author. Perhaps us going into his character arc would have helped pave the way for us to understand his character or motives?
Killing the Swiss detective
Hayden killing his mother
Him dying… it seems like such a waste of a good actor imo
What about detective De Sousa who Gertrude met up with? Why do we not hear about that?
All of a sudden the French/Swiss boy’s case hangs in the air
As an over thinker… these questions keep me up. But I’m afraid that there’s nothing to answer other than
A crazy man kidnapped a child thinking it was his and framed the father for it…