My half-sister committed suicide (or so I was told) a while back while she was living with my father in a trailer in Oregon (just like T.Banks). When I contacted the police in Oregon, the police lady told me that there were drugs involved and there were "bad" living conditions. The police closed the case as a suicide, although my father was a convicted felon and had the police around sometime earlier for a domestic abuse incident involving my sister. When I asked, the police whether a toxicology report was done, she said that they were still waiting on one (six months later) and that the case should not have been closed without that report.

I will never know the truth of what happened. My father was a mentally and physically abusive person to me (like when Leeland was all weird about Laura washing her hands) and beat the crap out of my mother and me. TP and FWWM put a face on something that I can't explain and don't know how to make sense of. It fills in the blanks. Although there are differences between L.Palmer and T.Banks and my sister, the eerie similarities allow me to digest the situation and make sense out people with psychotic and destructive personalities that cause trauma on their flesh and blood, ending in a person needing to die whether by being killed or taking their own life (like when Jacoby says that Laura wanted to die).

I also have an abusive father.  Although as much as I love Twin Peaks and can relate to it, I think my case bears more similarity to a Harmony Korine film...

^Kids is the only thing I know of him doing. Did anyone ever read his book? [sorry OT.]

 Sounds like you were better off where you were and not in Oregon. Sorry for your loss as well

I think we all can relate to TP in more ways than one.

Harmony Korine didn't make Kids, he wrote it.  He made Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy in years after, and yes wrote a few books.

Anyway, I somewhat understand your sadness OP.  Loss of life and people's apathetic attitude to it is horrible.

For me death is the ultimate theme of Twin Peaks.  Every event in the series stems from one death.