Suicide seems to end up being the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular press, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act many people are unable to talk about or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is one among the many unpleasant and paralyzing truths that author Carla Fine discovered when her spouse, a successful young physician, took his own life in Dec 1989. And being struggling to speak openly and honestly about the reason for her pain made it all of the about No Time to state Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT more difficult for her to survive.

With No Time to state Goodbye, she brings suicide success through the darkness into light, speaking frankly about the overwhelming feelings of confusion, guilt, pity, anger, and loneliness that are shared by all survivors. Fine draws on her own experience aswell as on the data of advisors and mental medical researchers. She offers a solid helping hand and invaluable assistance to the huge numbers of family and friends who are left behind by the more than thirty thousand people who commit suicide each year. And, maybe most important, for the first time in any reserve, she enables survivors to see that they are not alone within their feelings of grief and despair.