This story illustrates how fatal parental alienation can be.
At the advice of Rabbis, a father was alienated and prevented from speaking to his children and only his wife, the mother, was able to maintain a relationship with the children. Even though the father was held back from speaking to his children, he nevertheless drove his wife to his son’s home the night before the grandson’s bris for the vach nacht. Upon arrival to the home, the father was told he could not enter and only the mother would be allowed into the home. Not being allowed to celebrate the bris of his own grandson caused the father to become distraught. He got in his car, while under intense emotional distress, and drove to a bridge.
The father could not live in a world where he was forbidden from seeing his children and he jumped off the bridge. Before he jumped, the father sent letters which described the pain he
experienced due to the alienation from his children.