When Suicide Steals Your Child On Christmas Day, There Is Nothing To Say
Delaney “Jordan” McLean Verner Christmas was once my favourite time of the year. That is not how it is any longer. Beginning on Christmas morning, 2019, Christmas became the saddest time of the year for my family. The picture posted above is that of my second born son, Delaney “Jordan” McLean Verner. Family always called him “Bubba”. Everyone else knew him as “Jordan”. On Christmas morning 2019, in an obscure Alberta town called “Black Diamond“, Jordan lost his lifelong battle with mental illness and drug addiction. Me? I lost my religion. At the time Jordan and his common-law wife, Kaitlyn, were taken in to the home of a good Samaritan couple. They had been homeless and stranded. Living in their out of fuel car. They had been staying in the couple’s home for a week. And then … Sometime during Christmas morning’s early hours, Jordan went into their laundry room, stood on a little table, tied an extension cord around his neck and kicked the table away. (What I just told...