Pray for him every moment it crosses your mind. Everyone grieves and deals with life in their own way, I can’t speak for your son but I can share with you my experience in the hope that it helps. My best friend committed suicide last year on the same day my other best friend, my dog, of 14 years died.

I’m not one to express my emotions with people, I’m of Irish and Scottish descent if that helps paint a picture. It’s easier for me to type this out to strangers than to speak it with loved ones. Life following that day was very surreal for quite a while. An extreme heaviness came over me for months following. Sometimes silence and solitude is the only comfort. Words lose relevance and meaning and can come across as fake when people try to console you. If he knows your there for him then he knows, make sure he knows that that love is real and that it is there for him.Time heals wounds but the scars will always remain. Do your best to show him love without driving him away by smothering him. It’s easy to fall into a state of wanting to just drown it all out through alcohol or drugs, sometimes it’s needed or at least feels that way, but the danger is that it gets a foothold because it can make it worse and will take you into a darker place if you don’t have a solid foundation to stand on (Jesus Christ and the word of God) or good people or parents like yourself to help you out.

If you asked me during that time what you could do for me I would say pray. Leave me alone and let me grieve and just pray that the internal dialogue gets hashed out into a better understanding of this life and how fragile and precious it truly is.

My hearts broken for your sons loss, I will lift your son in prayer and ask that this wound heals and he becomes a better man from it.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.