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When someone close to you takes their own life, it's hard to even describe this extraordinary sense of loss and a rather unique grief. It seems intensified, probably because of a certain sense of responsibility that seems to just pervade. My sister's granddaughter, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, just as pure and as delightful a girl as you would ever meet, talented in so many respects, exciting to be with, fun to talk to--she took her own life. To lose someone like this at this time in her life seemed so much more painful than anything I can probably describe. The thing that I think we felt probably most immediately, though, was the importance of really looking to the source of strength, to the Savior, and trying to increase our faith that Heavenly Father has a plan. He has a plan for Ella, and because of who she is and her good life--the bright light that she was in our lives--that the blessings are there for her, and that her parents can take great comfort in that. Then in the redemptive power of the Atonement, to heal all that isn't right in this life, to correct all that is unfair in this life will be corrected. And then, of course, the overcoming death, and that body that we have in mortality that is so flawed in so many ways--because this is mortality, after all--rises again, free from the constraints of mortality and uncorrupted, pure, and whole through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. And as we seek to increase faith, as we seek to do the things that invite the Holy Ghost, the Comforter--the Comforter is real, and the peace does come.

McConkie: Comfort after a Suicide

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McConkie: Comfort after a Suicide
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