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Depression. Suicide. These are taboo words especially when spoken in reference to men. At the turn of the year, one of Kenya’s top dons jumped from the top floor of a major hotel having spent several days alone over the family focused New Year. The hush-hush around his death affirms the taboo that surrounds this issue.
A couple of months before, a top-level executive had jumped from his plush office to a gruesome death. Last year, an associate of mine in his 50s checked into a hotel room and died from what we now know was suicide. When I had made enquiries, there was the usual evasiveness that surrounds such deaths. These three and a myriad others generally successful and flourishing on the outside. But in their minds, life had ceased to have meaning and they had taken that most grim of decisions; to take their own lives.
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