It's a subject most don't want to confront - but each each day in Australia about 5 people commit suicide. Some 300 young people suicide in Australia each year. But why?
The ABC's 4 Corners program this week ["A Deadly Silence"] directly tackled the subject in a sobering, and exceedingly sad, exploration of the suicide of Campbell Bolton last year. Interviews with parents and family, teachers, school friends, a professor specialising in youth suicide and access to Campbell's last note, are used in seeking to try and piece together why a young man with so much to give, talented and liked, felt that at 17 life was just not worth living. Strangely, in his last note Campbell said he liked life!
Go to the ABC's 4 Corners web-site here to access the program and associated material. Suicide, and especially youth suicide, is a scourge which must be stopped. Check out resources to help with depression and suicide prevention - in this listing here.
The ABC's 4 Corners program this week ["A Deadly Silence"] directly tackled the subject in a sobering, and exceedingly sad, exploration of the suicide of Campbell Bolton last year. Interviews with parents and family, teachers, school friends, a professor specialising in youth suicide and access to Campbell's last note, are used in seeking to try and piece together why a young man with so much to give, talented and liked, felt that at 17 life was just not worth living. Strangely, in his last note Campbell said he liked life!
Go to the ABC's 4 Corners web-site here to access the program and associated material. Suicide, and especially youth suicide, is a scourge which must be stopped. Check out resources to help with depression and suicide prevention - in this listing here.
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