The towns that refuse to be torn apart by trauma: How Tasmanians are banding together to prevent suicide through 'postvention' [abc.net.au]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/10/2212:00 PM

By Lachlan Bennett, Photo: Lachlan Bennett/ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 7, 2022

They say it takes a village to raise a child. So when someone takes their life, it can shatter an entire community.

The long shadow of suicide is familiar to those who live in the idyllic fishing and tourist towns on Tasmania's east coast.

Here "everyone knows everybody and if you don't know someone, you know somebody who does", Break O'Day Mayor Mick Tucker said.

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