Thoughts after seeing ‘Evelyn’.
One thing about being a sibling after suicide loss is that there is not a lot of post-suicide-loss-support to be found. At least in my case, there was no-one to point a way to things that remotely related to the way I was feeling. I had to go find my own sources of comfort and help. And pretty much the only things that I found were (a small number of) books, often memoirs, written by other siblings and, sporadically, the odd film/documentary that touched upon my new world. (And by the way, if you are reading this as a sister who has experienced loss of a sibling via suicide I really recommend Four Sisters. ) So, rather than being interested in Evelyn as a film, I wanted to see this film because of a sense of connection. The background to this film is that Evelyn took his own life, leaving behind three siblings (two brothers and a sister), his parents, friends (and no doubt countless non-appearing other people whose lives he touched). As a family they did not talk about him o