Are suicide notes ever returned to the family?

could they ask for a copy...?

if i was to suicide... i would send the letter... to stop the police reading personal info.

My nephew committed suicide 8 months ago. He was only 17. The detective in charge of the case said that he will never release the note that my nephew wrote because it has blood on it. This has weighed heavy on me since I found out that my nephew left a note. My sister (his mother) does not want to see it and refuses to fight for it. As an aunt I don't know if I have any kind of rights regarding this. I just feel like if my nephew took the time to write a note before deciding to take his life then that cop should be ashamed of himself for keeping it from us. I think if I could read it it might give me a better understanding of what happened.

I didn't know that the police or whatever powers-that-be would take such a note, much less withhold it from the family. That just seems odd. Sure, they could make a copy of it, but it's not like they would need it for fingerprints or DNA, it wasn't a homicide!

I agree with Evan's Mom. My dad committed suicide and all of us in the family would have liked to have had a final note, something to help us completely understand the anguish he was going through, and perhaps if he'd expressed what we could have done to help him, we could be stirred with some constructive feelings of guilt, learn from past mistakes, etc. I deviated from the topic, sorry, but I had to get those thoughts out.

I dont have any experience with this situation. But Ianted to say to COuntry Gal that maybe its possible they want it because it is their loved ones last thoughts and goodbyes. I know if I lost someone I loved I would want to know why they left , for closure . Besides that the letter was for family not for a trash can in an evidence room.

No they need the evidence for their investigation in the suicide case and probably throw the note away i wouldn't imagine why someone wanted to keep a suicide note of a deceased love one.

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