It’s something very few people talk about, but suicide likely affects someone you know. Friday was World Suicide Prevention Day.
Ottawa’s Suicide Prevention Coalition invited author and photographer Scott Chisholm to tell his story. His father shot himself when Scott was 16 years old.
Now he is compiling a book of photographs and stories from survivor families.
He says the key to prevention is to talk.
“Not talking about it isn’t working,” he says, “We need to create a dialogue that will get rid of the stigma because the stigma is what kills.”