Episode 298: Jill (mom), Esther (sister) of Luke (who died by suicide)

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My dear friends Jill and Esther Brown join us to talk about their dear son/brother Luke who died by suicide in January 2020 at age 31. Both active LDS, they are living their worst nightmare and the void of Luke being gone. They talk about Luke. The great man that he is and all the good he did for others. They give wonderful tribute to Luke and insights into his kindness, love for others and core goodness. They also talk about their brutal and difficult road and how things will never be the same. The also talk directly to the “people like Luke” out there who are silently suffering and not opening up for family and/or friends and the foundation they started called The Lucas Terrill Kitchen Foundation (see Instagram at live4yourluke) If you have lost a family member to suicide, want to help someone on this road, or are suicidal please listen to this podcast. Jill and Esther (two brave and courageous women) will give you hope, perspective and a desire to better connect with our Savior. Thanks for being on the podcast Jill and Esther and your courage to share your story. You two are awesome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listening and Love, hosted by Richard Osseller.
0:09.0	My guest on today's podcast are mother, Jill Brown, and her daughter, Esther Brown.
0:15.0	Welcome to the podcast, you too.
0:17.0	Thank you for having us.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about their son and brother Luke, who died by suicide January 12th, 2020, at the age of 31.
0:33.3	And this will be a podcast.
0:34.9	The goal of doing these podcasts of severalfold.
0:37.9	One is to honor Luke.
0:40.6	And we've been doing that the last half or hard before we went live.
0:43.9	There's pictures here of Luke.
0:45.3	There's the program from the funeral.
0:48.7	And I just wish I met this good man.
0:52.3	And so part of the podcast is to honor him.
0:54.8	But part of the podcast is also for a sibling who has lost somebody to suicide to talk
1:01.0	about that road.
1:02.7	These two siblings, a decade apart, Esther and Luke, are friends, deeply connected.
1:10.2	And it's been obviously this is a family's worst nightmare that's happened.
1:14.9	And so Esther who reached out to me on a DM on Instagram,
1:18.5	has been listening to podcasts of others that have come on,
1:22.0	I've talked about a suicide of a family member.
1:24.4	And she just has some insights she'd like to share that would help other
1:28.9	family members that have gone through this and Jill um Luke's mom a mother of six grandmother
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