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My BackABuddy campaign
In 2015, I went to the gym like any ordinary day. I didn’t come home. I had a heart attack and died on the gym floor. By sheer chance, a doctor was training nearby. He used a portable defibrillator to restart my heart and saved my life. Two years later, that same man took his […]
11 March 2026
The silence that hurts: Confronting suicide in Prevention Month
September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time when the world collectively pauses to confront a subject often cloaked in silence and stigma. Suicide remains one of life’s most devastating paradoxes: an irreversible, permanent act, chosen to escape what is almost always a temporary problem. It goes against the most primal instinct we have – to […]
8 September 2025
Suicide Prevention Day: 10 September
The paradox of suicide is it is an irreversible, permanent solution to what is, inevitably, a temporary problem. It is also an incredible contradiction to the inherent motivation every living thing has to survive and stay alive at all costs. If someone held your head under water, eventually you would kick, scratch, bite and do […]
10 September 2024