This article contains discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having a suicide crisis, please call the Canada Suicide Prevention Service (1-833-456-4566), which offers 24/7 support. There is also Kids Help Phone (1-800-668-6868), the First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line (1-855-242-3310), and 1-866-APPELLE (for Quebec residents).
In a frayed cardboard box, Lana Greene keeps a collection of important items, each in a clear plastic bag and labelled with a hasty scribble: there’s a lighter, a cloth face mask, a blue T-shirt, a black belt, socks, jeans, a pocket Bible with a crumpled front page, shoes with the backs ripped out and laces removed. It’s all Greene has left of her twenty-three-year-old son, Timothy James McConnell, or TJ as he is commonly known.
