"Committing" Suicide

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There are just terms about suicide that just stab and makes me grimmace each time I hear it;   small stabs, but stabs none the less.  "Committing" Suicide is one of them.  Many years ago,  suicide was considered a crime, thus the term committing suicide was used. It is no longer a crime, yet the term "committing suicide" is still often used.  

"Killed themselves", "shot themselves", "hung themselves" are  still hard for me to hear too. 

When people ask me if I have children, it's a difficult question to answer.  How much do I want to say? Do I know them well enough to tell them everything? Do I want to open myself up to that?  I try and say "My only child Wesly passed away in October 2017".  If they ask further, I try to say "he suffered from depression and took his own life:.  Both are still hard to say, tears still come to my eyes when I say it, even to strangers, even now.  So, I try not to give details, unless asked.

Wesly did not die from suicide, he died from depression.  Suicide was just the means.