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If you are having suicidal thoughts, and are in Austrlaia please contact
LifeLine on 131114 or
The Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467 or
click her for more information
If you have already done serious harm to yourself, ring 000 and ask for an Ambulance.
If you are elsewhere please contact your local emergency services.
Welcome to 'Suicide is NOT Cool'
 Hi there - and thanks for visiting my site. My name is Cherrie, and this Website is dedicated to my son Bede, to his memory and to his struggle, the path he travelled and to his ultimate loss.
Why 'Suicide is Not Cool'? I lost a teenage boy to suicide, as so many thousands of other families have, and do each year. This is NOT acceptable. My experiences as I traversed the mental health 'system' with my son and watched his inner torment has, sadly, left me with valuable information and a commitment to fight for change.
In Australia, as many other parts of the world, suicide is the number one killer of teenagers and young adults under 35. So why is it that we don't want to talk about it? This has to change. Not just for those caught in the spiral of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and their families. This is everyone's concern - and that's what we aim to achieve with this website.
As I read about and hear about suicides across the globe, including those teens who engage in 'suicide pacts' I am compelled to speak out and to raise awareness and to fight to end the stigma around suicide. It's NOT cool to suicide. It's NOT cool to die young. It's NOT cool to not reach out and ask for help. There is a solution to any problem and my heart yearns for all teens who are troubled and struggling with life and their own inner torment - that they can see that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
This is a special place created for those who have an interest in suicide – either you might have lost someone, be considering suicide yourself or just want to understand and/or help stop this useless waste of life.
This site aims to raise awareness, provide information and resources, eradicate the stigma around mental health and suicide and to help teens and their families as they face these horrors.
Bede’s Blog is there for anyone to add comment – and for conversations to occur that are constructive and supportive of each contributor. This is a place where you can openly share your experiences, and share ideas of how we might change things – and ideas on how we can advocate for these changes.
One of the most important things that we hope to achieve is to eradicate the stigma that surrounds both suicide and mental illness. Lets fight to make it COOL to get the help that's needed and to survive the problems and live to share the stories of recovery and survival. Now that's COOL!
In the past little while since Bede's death I have met many people who have lost loved ones and there seems to be a common theme about those who suicide. It is gentleness and sensitivity that I hear about. This just makes the tragedy of suicide even worse. Because it would seem that these are the very ones who have what it takes to change this world and to add genuine care into our society. Alas we are loosing our best - and it has to stop.
So please visit the blog and please tell your friends and families - especially those with teenagers who are struggling with life. It could just provide them with the information that they need to stop a suicide, and save a life. I have created some blog topics which raise some questions I think are worth discussing. Please feel free to comment.
I'd love to hear from you on the guest book.
To find out more about me and why I'm here, please read the 'about us' page. To read about Bede and his story please read the 'Bede's Story' page.
Thanks again for visiting - please stay a while and come back frequently.
Cherrie :-)
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