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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

Joy Division joins call for suicide to become public health emergency, 42 years after Ian Curtis death

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Members of the band Joy Division have joined the calls for action to prevent suicides as MPs call for action, 42 years after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis.

During a meeting held at Speakers House, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris discussed their own experience following the death of Curtis in 1980 and said there was still long way to go in treating mental health as equal to physical health.

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