Step up the effort to spot the signs of and counter rural suicides

摘要

I was going to write about something else entirely this month. I'd almost finished and was ready to send it in. And then, completely out of the blue, and just a week before Christmas, we received a call that our neighbouring farmer and long-term family friend had taken his own life.Sitting here in our kitchen, late at night in the dark, numb with shock and deep sadness, and with all kinds of thoughts and memories running through my mind, I feel there's nothing else I can write about now.