TOGETHER, WE DO MORE: Ken and Pat Duncan lost their 27-year-old daughter, Abbey, to suicide in 2010. She was an avid environmentalist; a mentor to other young women studying Buddhism; and a hydrologist for the City of New York doing brownfield remediation, finding success and respect in a male-dominated industry of developers.
“How do you go from being that impactful to, for lack of a better word, losing your way in life? And it happened very, very quickly,” Ken said. “As an outsider looking in … we’ll never really know.”
This personal experience of loss changed his perspective on mental health.
“It opens up a whole new world, a whole new awareness,” he said. “Things that were foreign to you are no longer foreign to you.”
Read more of the Duncans' story and how they have responded to their loss at the link in our bio.
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