Quebec, is a world leader in one sad category : suicides. Even attempts, rife within the youth population, leave indelible scars. Any suicidal act, completed or attemted, has many victims. The province's suicide intervention community has accumulated a vast repository of knowledge and techniques they use on a daily basis. Despair, addiction, loneliness, loss : reasons for suicidal thoughts are varied, but Quebec's overworked interveners have noticed similarities in the trajec