Yes, I'm also happy for him that he managed to pull himself out of it and decide to live instead. Yes, sometimes it takes a conscious decision to go on living and really to grasp the gift of life.

I didn’t go through so much as he's not such a close friend - but reconnected through facebook in the last couple of years. .. you know how it is I'm sure .. it did effect me, that period when nobody knew where he was or what he may or may not have done ...

It was the third time in the past several months that friends on Facebook have posted what appear to be suicide notes, which is what caused me to write about it. In all three cases, good friends answered the cry for help and nobody died.