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Memories

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on March 19, 2015September 26, 2019

We celebrated the birthdays of my son and son-in-law with a round of golf at…

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A Closed Door

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on March 13, 2015August 7, 2019

Maldon is Victoria’s best preserved gold rush town with its carefully maintained colonial buildings and…

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Perceived Burdensomeness

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on March 6, 2015August 15, 2019

 Still Alice is an exploration of the descent into darkness or as one writer expressed it…

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Social Connectedness

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 26, 2015September 26, 2019

We attended the Scots Day Out in Rosalind Park Bendigo. We stood among the crowd…

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The Larrikin Priest

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 19, 2015September 26, 2019

Father Bob Maguire was parish priest of St Peter and Paul’s Church in South Melbourne…

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A Complex Grief

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 13, 2015September 26, 2019

The movie THE WATER DIVINER also sheds light on suicide grief. When the farmer, played…

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The Water Diviner

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 9, 2015September 26, 2019

Over the summer break I saw the movie THE WATER DIVINER directed by Russell Crowe.…

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Understanding Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 2, 2015September 26, 2019

On the 26th April 2011 our second son Adam took his life. I had been…

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Bruce Rickard

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Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.

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