The coroners’ data does not break out ethnicity or race. Experts estimate that for every completed suicide, between 10 and 100 suicides are attempted.Ī 2016 survey of 1,319 Canadian teens aged 13 to 18 conducted by Kids Help Phone found one in five seriously considered suicide. In Nova Scotia, the figures more than doubled in that same time frame.ĭeaths are only recorded as suicide if the intent is clear.
In British Columbia, the number rose to 114 from 78 a decade earlier. In Saskatchewan, 36 young people killed themselves in 2005 that number jumped to 54 last year. Some provinces have seen increases in recent years. Police found her body a two-minute walk from her house in Ingersoll, Ont.ĭespite dedicated government mental health campaigns aimed at young people over the past two decades, youth suicide rates have remained steady. In what was at least her fifth attempt at suicide, she hanged herself. Everything was perfect,” says Huitema.īut upon their return home, Degraw told her mother she wanted to go for a walk after dinner. “We had an amazing few days at the beach with my parents and my younger daughter Lily. In 2016, the figure was 181.ĭegraw was 20 when ended her life on a summer evening in July of 2016, hours after she returned home from a week at the family’s Lake Huron cottage. In 2005, 146 people between the ages of 8 and 24 died by suicide in Ontario, according to coroner data.
Suicide is second only to accidents as the leading cause of death for young people in Canada. More than 5,800 Canadian children and youth have died by suicide during the past 13 years across Canada - some as young as 8 years old, according to data compiled by a Toronto Star/Ryerson School of Journalism investigation from coroners’ offices in all provinces and territories except Nunavut. She said it to her doctors that she would take her life one day.” “She made it very clear that this is how her life would end,” says her mother, Aimee Huitema. Over the next five years, she tried four more times. At the age of 15, Laurissa Rose Degraw attempted to take her own life for the first time.
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