News From the Cause
One soldier's story of depression, addiction, and suicide: Grieving parents blame military's indifference (Part1): (Ottawa Citizen)
June 22, 2009
Five years later, the Afghanistan veteran would be dead. His world would crash down around him in a haze of alcohol and drug abuse. In the course of a year, he would attempt suicide six times, before successfully hanging himself in a CFB Edmonton barracks. His parents, Shaun and Sheila Fynes of Victoria, B.C., are now living a nightmare, trying to understand exactly what happened to their son and why he didn't receive proper care for what several doctors diagnosed as major depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome. They can't understand how a soldier, known to be suicidal, was unsupervised the day he killed himself. [click here to view] (http://www.canada.com/Health/MENTAL+HEALTH+MILITARY/1716781/story.html)
