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On August 13, 2014, Marci found Paul, her beloved husband of thirty-four years, dead by suicide. No warning. No explanation. No final good-bye. Less than five years later, on March 15, 2019, the unthinkable happened again. Michael, Marci's second husband of only eight months, was found dead by suicide as well. In And No One Saw It Coming, Marci vulnerably shares her journey from anger, hopelessness, and sorrow to acceptance and joy while offering hope to others facing similar situations today.
Suicide is considered one of the most challenging types of loss to suffer. Your grief is complicated, messy, and haunting. In 2019, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the United States—an alarming fact and dangerous epidemic. In the grip of unrelenting pain, Marci courageously meets grief head-on and, with dogged determination and sets out to expose the ill-conceived and biased attitudes toward mental illnesses and suicide.
And No One Saw It Coming is full of grit and candid insights and opens the door into a personal story of lost love, betrayal, abandonment, shattered dreams, unanswered questions, judgements, and harmful social stigma. Vividly, Marci reveals the catastrophic impact of a suicide death on loved ones left behind. From the first page, her riveting, original, and profoundly moving open letter exposes the insidious way mental illness torments and holds captive its victims under the guise of silence. And why no one could see the end coming for her family. Twice.