Question? Two Addicts Use, One Dies, and One Lives To Suffer Another Day.

Jennifer Estes
2 min readNov 8, 2021
Photo by Hasan Almasi on Unsplash

I have a question for you about my good friend, and I will call him Rob for anonymity. He is a family man, has three children, loves animals, is super sensitive, and cries through sad movies.

He has also struggled most of his life with substance use disorder. He spent most of his twenties and thirties in and out of prison before he…

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Jennifer Estes

I am a widow, a mortician, a mom, and grandma. I write about grief, caregiving, substance use disorder, and the death care industry.