The sitting job revisited

My phone rang this morning asking if I could sit tonight. Now, I thought they forgot about me because they have not asked me to work for months. I excitedly agreed. What I was going to walk into I was not ready for. Picture this....
A man in his early 30's with two children, family and a job as an computer engineer. Sounds like a promising life? I would think so but a short time ago this man decided to take his life by jumping out of a car traveling at 70 mph. He survived with some road rash and some broken face bones.
Now last month attempted again, this time overdosed on medication and washing it down with vodka. Failure again. This man that had a family and a job is now reduced to a hospital bed. He will never walk again, talk, eat, read, any of life's simple tasks. He wears a diaper and has a feeding tube protruding from his stomach.
As I sat there and watched him struggle to turn himself to the foot of the bed I could not help but to think of what he may have been before. Picture's filled the walls of drawings from young family member saying "please get better and come home and play with us". And it saddened me because he will never play again. The overdose may have not killed him but it killed all of he cognitive abilities. He can not communicate anything.
This maybe a trivial job but it is a hard one. I would encourage anyone who knows a person going through a hard time please, please help them. Even if all you can do is listen, that maybe the one thing that keeps them alive.