The country has second highest rate of youth suicide in the OECD and
young, Maori men continue to be disproportionately represented in
statistics. “We have to start talking about it. We would never be ashamed of our
boy and we feel so strongly that people have to wake up to what is going
on in this country – it is an epidemic.”
Jane Stevens is speaking on the phone, talking about her son Nicholas Taiaroa Macpherson Stevens. The 21-year-old died in April. In hindsight, there were subtle clues. Small, strange things the usually benign and peaceful Nicky said, veiled hints that he had devastating plans that would end his short, vibrant but tumultuous life.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/we-have-to-start-talking-about-it-new-zealand-suicide-rates-hit-record-high?CMP=share_btn_fb
Jane Stevens is speaking on the phone, talking about her son Nicholas Taiaroa Macpherson Stevens. The 21-year-old died in April. In hindsight, there were subtle clues. Small, strange things the usually benign and peaceful Nicky said, veiled hints that he had devastating plans that would end his short, vibrant but tumultuous life.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/we-have-to-start-talking-about-it-new-zealand-suicide-rates-hit-record-high?CMP=share_btn_fb