Suicide is intruding into my world again in multiple unwelcome ways.

For a 16 year old who is becoming the closest thing to a child I'll ever have, I want to try and assemble some of the music that's given me something to hold onto, cling to, when I needed it. Music with meaning, the kind where you put on headphones and literally let the lyrics speak to you. Music that reminds you you're not the only one who has ever been in this place, that soothes, or promotes confidence, asserts that feeling deeply is a double edged sword, that helps you find the faith to believe that somewhere, some how, some day you will feel better than you do at this moment, and even this moment will pass.

Is there anything as embarassing as someone who's so earnestly sappy? Death, it's potential, and its memorial always does it to me, sorry.

Fortunately my would-be child has only one limit to her musical tastes - no rap.

So, ideas?

Kelly