Linda CollinsLinda Collins

Linda Collins is the author of the non-fiction book Loss Adjustment. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, New Zealand, and lives in Singapore.

Staying silent on suicide didn’t help my daughter

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A recent column by the director of New Zealand’s Suicide Prevention Office argued that ‘normalising talking about suicide’ doesn’t help. Linda Collins, the author of a forthcoming book about losing a child to suicide, wonders how silence can ever be a solution. Just this week, a friend who helps maintain a suicide prevention website messaged … Read more