Megan Gamble has organised a Suicide Prevention Memorial Service. Photo / George Novak.
A gathering of Bay families coming together to remember those lost to suicide has been postponed due to bad weather.
Tauranga Grief Support Services organised the suicide memorial service to take place at the Edgewater Fan on The Strand yesterday to mark this year's World Suicide Prevention Day.
However, the
gathering will now take place at Legacy funerals next Thursday at 5.30pm.
Grief Support Services board member, qualified social worker and event organiser Megan Gamble, said the service was a unique opportunity to come together, to comfort, reflect and remember loved ones lost to suicide, as well as an opportunity to talk about the causes and effects of suicide in the community, she said.
Mrs Gamble, who lost her 36-year-old husband Shawn to suicide nine years ago, said the day was also a call to action for individuals, organisations and the community to focus on steps to help prevent more people dying unnecessarily.
