BEST OF TOO POSH "Live with Grace" $10.000 Scholarship to a Booker T Senior in honor of Grace Loncar
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When Sue Loncar was in total despair, after the death of her 16 year old daughter and her husband within days of each other she felt hopeless with no idea
what to do next.
Her best friend of many years Libby, told her she was going to run the "Grace Loncar Foundation", which she started immediately, filed all the paperwork
and they had their first meeting 2 weeks after Grace was gone.
www.graceloncarfoundation.com
A big reason for the foundation is to end the stigma because people do not want to talk about it. Suicide has increased by 70% in the last 10 years and is the
number 2 death for ages 10 - 34.
We learn about an incredible program called "Hope Squad" that was created by someone from Utah and they are trying to get it into all schools.
Shockingly they are getting a lot of resistance because schools are afraid it will give students ideas. The foundation is even offering to pay for the counselors
and the training.
Sue and her oldest daughter Sally speak at many events.
They also provide care cards that have all the suicide warning signs on them.
The reach of the foundation is all over the country.
Sue believes that it is mostly impulse control with teenagers, and she believes that even though Grace was depressed her suicide was out of impulse because she
was mad. Their frontal lobe is not all the way developed yet.
Sue made the difficult decision to have an open casket at Grace's funeral, because she wanted the reality to sink in with Grace's friends that this is what suicide looks
like. Not all family members were in agreement with this decision but Sue thought it would be important and her passion is to try to save lives.
Sue talks passionately about mental health.
She tells us that they call people "Suicide Survivors" because it is a double whammy to overcome - because not only do you lose your loved one, but then people
blame you. The surviving person gets looked at like it is their fault.
Sue says that sometimes it is better to call a friend than calling a hotline, but of course to call someone is the most important.
Younger people don't feel they can trust their friends because they get let down so often.
Sue wishes that she could snap out of her deep grief, because she doesn't want it to define her, but she doesn't know how to.
She tells us that they try to celebrate Grace's life and focus on all that was amazing about her and not how she died.
She would give everything for just one more day!
www.graceloncarfoundation.com
Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-8255
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BEST OF TOO POSH "Live with Grace" $10.000 Scholarship to a Booker T Senior in honor of Grace Loncar
When Sue Loncar was in total despair, after the death of her 16 year old daughter and her husband within days of each other she felt hopeless with no idea
what to do next.
Her best friend of many years Libby, told her she was going to run the "Grace Loncar Foundation", which she started immediately, filed all the paperwork
and they had their first meeting 2 weeks after Grace was gone.
www.graceloncarfoundation.com
A big reason for the foundation is to end the stigma because people do not want to talk about it. Suicide has increased by 70% in the last 10 years and is the
number 2 death for ages 10 - 34.
We learn about an incredible program called "Hope Squad" that was created by someone from Utah and they are trying to get it into all schools.
Shockingly they are getting a lot of resistance because schools are afraid it will give students ideas. The foundation is even offering to pay for the counselors
and the training.
Sue and her oldest daughter Sally speak at many events.
They also provide care cards that have all the suicide warning signs on them.
The reach of the foundation is all over the country.
Sue believes that it is mostly impulse control with teenagers, and she believes that even though Grace was depressed her suicide was out of impulse because she
was mad. Their frontal lobe is not all the way developed yet.
Sue made the difficult decision to have an open casket at Grace's funeral, because she wanted the reality to sink in with Grace's friends that this is what suicide looks
like. Not all family members were in agreement with this decision but Sue thought it would be important and her passion is to try to save lives.
Sue talks passionately about mental health.
She tells us that they call people "Suicide Survivors" because it is a double whammy to overcome - because not only do you lose your loved one, but then people
blame you. The surviving person gets looked at like it is their fault.
Sue says that sometimes it is better to call a friend than calling a hotline, but of course to call someone is the most important.
Younger people don't feel they can trust their friends because they get let down so often.
Sue wishes that she could snap out of her deep grief, because she doesn't want it to define her, but she doesn't know how to.
She tells us that they try to celebrate Grace's life and focus on all that was amazing about her and not how she died.
She would give everything for just one more day!
www.graceloncarfoundation.com
Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-8255
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Part 3 of Miss Sue Loncar's brave testimony about her daughter's suicide and her husbands overdose deaths takes us through "the day of the worst day of her life".
Sue believes that Grace had no intentions to kill herself that night because she had gone to the mall, bought candles and planned to go to a party the next day.
She thought that she had actually been doing a lot better than before.
Sue says that Teenagers confide in their friends that they want to commit suicide, but usually not to anyone else.
Sue was always the disciplinarian but the night of Grace's death both her and Brian took Grace's phone because she had gotten in trouble. It was not a harsh punishment and
she was supposed to get her phone back the next morning.
Sue stayed with Grace until 4 am to talk everything through and to make sure she was ok.
When she woke up at 11 am and went to Grace's room she found her dead on the floor with a gunshot wound to her head.
Sue's first reaction was to sit her up and will her back to life.
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2 days after Grace's funeral on the next Sunday she was waiting on Brian to meet her in church but he didn't show up, because he had overdosed and by the
time Sue got to the hospital her husband was dead.
In complete shock she could not even comprehend what was happening.
She has been robbed from being able to share memories of her daughter with him who loved her as much as she did. She has to walk this painful road all alone.
She says she knows what it feels like to want to die. Her saving Grace have been God and her other children because she does not want to harm them anymore.
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She had to learn to make it one breath at a time, 30 minutes at a time, 1 hour at a time ..................
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