The Day My EHD Died

My Western Digital 1Tb My Book Essential Edition died today. I think it did anyway.
I was doing some layouts for the teams I am in this morning and when I turned on the laptop this afternoon, it won't read the drive. This is really crazy and depressing. I had put ALL of my files in there and now they're all GONE! I have tried other options I can find online but nothing worked. This is a serious matter and I wanna die whenever I remember all the school files I have saved there. Not to mention the years and years of photos of my kids while growing up. That's a major sucker punch of all.