Though commendable, your article on teen suicide ("Working to Stop Suicides of Teenagers," July 30) is remiss in failing to address the issue of homosexuality.
Jim Weir of Fasa, a community organisation based on the Shankill Road, which focuses on substance misuse, self-harm and suicide, works mainly with young men aged between 11 and 25.
Catch – which deals with teenagers who have been thrown out of their family home or have attempted suicide – works on the principle that a swift response is crucial to nip problems in the bud.
The shattering effects of this book are, alas, irreparably lodged in my brain, and the telling of these tales tells me that this is the way suicide works, its icky ins and outs won't leave you alone no matter where you are or what you are doing.
That's how Big Suicide works, you know!
The factory owner in the news report states quite candidly that if it had not been for the spate of suicides, work conditions in the factory would not have been addressed.
Suicide prevention work must, therefore, address this.
Five years after his suicide, the work of Alexander McQueen is to be honoured at the V&A with a major retrospective that opens next month.
In particular, two of her friends said that Paula had told them that her husband was doing a course on suicide at work – he was a hospital technician – and he had asked her to write suicide letters, which he dictated.
