How do you deal with the death of a family member if his death was caused by an overdose?
Consider the possibility that the overdose was not intentional. I know from personal experience that people have died from accidental overdosing of medications or drugs. In this case, your loved one did not intend to die and leave you; they still loved you and never intended to leave you at all. They just made a mistake which caused them (and their loved ones) to suffer the results of the ultimate consequence – death. Try not to be angry at them for the way they died; even if it was intentional they had to have been in a lot of emotional pain, and just didn’t know any other way to stop the pain. Either way, you have to forgive them. But if you have been blaming yourself (thinking you should have known, or should have been there, or done ‘this or that’, etc.) then please, do NOT think that way. No one can ever really know what is going on in another person’s mind, so there is no way to know this would have happened. But I do believe your loved one would want you to forgive, and to move
