My cousin just committed suicide now what?

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My cousin who lives out of state just committed suicide this morning. He is 25 yrs old. I just don't understand why he did it. His brother is the one who has had problems and was in and out of rehab and was suicidal. Now he has rehabilitated himself. He started working in a nursing home as a nurses aid and now has his LPN degree for nursing. If anyone would have committed suicide that would have been the one who everyone thought would have committed suicide. This morning my cousin text messaged his mother, brother, and sister and told them he loved them and he was sorry. Immediately his mother and brother rushed over to his apartment. The manager let them in but they were too late. Sadly, they were the first ones on the scene. Can you imagine what it must have felt like for a mother to walk in and see her son lying there motionless, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head and there is nothing she can do. She must have been going out of her mind. My father is a minister and he was asked to do the funeral. How does a man perform a funeral for his nephew. He is grief stricken himself. The family did not attend a church and do not have a minister of their own. So my father is supposed to take care of everything for them. He has to make all the calls to the funeral home and help pick out pallbearers. It seems he is overwhelmed. And he wants to be there for his sister who is the boys mother, and he wants to be there for the rest of the family. How should he handle this? I am sure whether he wants to or not he will perform the funeral service because his family asked him too and he just will do it. But hwo does he pull it together and stand up in front of everyone and speak to them about someone who he is also grieving over and keep his self together as well.