Nunavik gets federal funds, Quebec pledges to help with suicide crisis
The pain spread like contagion.
A father found his son’s lifeless body in their home and called for help. Paramedics rushed to the scene, trying frantically to revive the young man, but it was too late.
Whatever unyielding measure of pain led the young man to take his own life was already beginning to ripple through Quaqtaq. Sevim Ilgun says that, like so many families in the Inuit village, hers has been devastated by the suicide.
Ilgun’s sister, her brother and cousin were the param
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