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‘My son didn’t want to end his life – he just wanted to end his pain’

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Jenny Teo lost her only son to suicide nearly five years ago. To help others, she started Stigma2Strength (Singapore) to provide education and awareness on suicide, and co-founded PleaseStay.Movement, an advocacy movement by mothers who lost children
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SINGAPORE – He was lying on a red sofa, his body cold, his head covered with a plastic bag tied at the neck.

Five months shy of 21, Josh was already dead when his mother Jenny Teo found him in the ground-floor study of their three-storey home on the morning of June 25, 2018.

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