The Daily Record today reported that a Scottish man took his own life to be with his dead son – highlighting the devastating effect of losing a child.
Allan Hogg,30, strangled himself in what appears to be a suicide pact after his eight-year old son Connor died in a car crash. His wife Kelly is quoted as saying: “I know it might sound strange to some people but when you are about to lose a child you love more than anything in the world, you want to do everything in your power to protect them. If that means taking you own life, then that is the sacrifice we decided to make.”
While the idea of suicide may seem inconceivable to most fathers, for Mr Hogg it was clearly the only path out that he could see – despite the fact that he left a wife and 13-year-old daughter behind him.
Whether you agree with his decision or not, it shows the turmoil that fathers face when losing a child and the struggle they face to carry on after they have gone.
