It's tragic when ANY young person takes their life. Living with this tragedy as we have, thru a close friends daughter at 17 ending her life we have learned much. The brain and hence mental illness is like any other organ in the body BUT the least  understood. If the youth in question died of cancer we would not question the cause and if we did enough to help.The brain can have issues and not function properly.Thru counselling /medication and other means of support it is often not enough to ease the pain and desire to end ones life.

There is no doubt that wait times and costs are also a contributing factor s for many but we still need to face the facts that man has been committing suicide forever and we are now just being more open about.

It is a tragedy that no one should face and it comes with life altering consequences.Life is more complex than ever and the overabundance of media and technology adds to the angst of many.