To Frank & Elaine ,

Been thinking a lot about you two as I was trying to get this page done.
How do you say what is in your mind and heart knowing that what ever you say is
going to bring someone some pain. This is not my intention to bring any hurt to either one of you.
This is a dream of mine from the time we were faced with the horror of suicide.
To do something that would help others maybe to reconsider committing suicide.
I wanted to memorialize a life that was so precious to us. Scotts Life!

It has been 8 yrs since you lost a son and I lost a nephew .I ran across this song and it says:
Empty spaces fill me up with holes. It talks about being incomplete.
When a piece is missing in our life we do fill incomplete.

People tell us to move on with our lives, get over it. But those folks have never had to deal
with what suicide does in our life. We will live the rest of our days wondering if we could have said or
done something to stop what happened to Scott.

Our lives changed the day this happened. I can remember the next day after Scott took his life.
I would see other people (strangers) and I thought: Wait, how can they walk around like nothing
has happened? It was like the world stopped that day and I thought the WHOLE should
be in the same pain that we were in. I find myself looking at other children and teens
and thinking will they grow to an old age? I see so many people going through
pain and heart-ache and I wonder will try survive or will they want to end their life by suicide.

To both of you, I want to thank you for giving us Scott for the years we did have him .
You both raise a very special young man . Know that my heart goes out to you both.

I just want you to know that Scott did NOT take his life because he no longer loved you.
He loved his family dearly and deeply.
It's just that the pain of staying was harder than the pain of leaving.

I hope this memorial page will bring you some comfort knowing that
your son will always be loved and never forgotten.
I love you both and my prayers are always with you.
One day we will be complete again when Scotts
greets us when it is our time to meet with him.

~Love Always~

Wanda

~Poem~

Last night while I was trying to sleep.
Scott's voice I did hear.
I opened my eyes and looked around but he did not appear.
He said, you’ve got to listen. You've got to understand;

God didn't take me from you, He only took my hand.
When I cried out in pain that night, the instant that I died,
He reached down and took my hand, and pulled me to his side.
He pulled me up and saved me, from the misery and pain
My body so badly wounded I could never be the same.

My search is finally over now, I've found happiness within.
All the answers to empty dreams, and all I might have been.

I love you all and miss you ....so....please don't keep asking why.
My bodies gone forever, but my spirit will never die!
So live until we meet again, and please try to understand
God didn't take me from you, He only took my hand.

Author Unknown
Note: Has been modified

~ September, 2005 ~

With love and remembrance