Nunavut Suicide Prevention Strategy 2010

Suicide touches the lives of all Nunavummiut. The immense loss of lives – concentrated among Inuit youth – is well-known within the Territory. Few peoples have experienced the scale of death by suicide that Nunavut Inuit have in the last 40 years, and few jurisdictions have suffered the degree of suicide-related trauma that Nunavut has. Nunavummiut have been exposed so directly and repeatedly to suicide that they have come to accept the situation as normal. Despite this, it has been extremely difficult to talk openly about this issue in Nunavut, whether on the personal, family, community, or political level. [...]