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Rachel E. Moss is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Oxford. Her first book, Fatherhood and its Representations in Middle English Texts, is published in 2013 with Boydell & Brewer.

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On World Suicide Prevention Day 2025

53 months ago today my husband of seven years (and partner of 14) stepped out into an early spring morning, walked into our garage, and sometime thereafter took his own life.

Every September thereafter I have felt sharply aware of World Suicide Prevention Day, which was set up in 2003 with the World Health Organisation as a major day of advocacy. You’ll probably hear a lot of statistics today, lik

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