Walk in memory of friend who committed suicide

Local woman participates in walk in memory of friend who committed suicide
Friday, May 14, 2010

By MICHAEL CLEVELAND

Correspondent


BEDFORD – Eleven years after a close friend committed suicide, Kimberly Paquette will walk 18 miles through the night in the hope that by doing so, she can stop others from dying by their own hands.

“It’s called the Out of the Darkness Walk,” Paquette said, “because quite literally, you’re walking overnight, walking out of the darkness of the night into the sunrise to bring attention to depression and suicide.”

She believes it might have been depression that led her friend Benjamen Bugden to kill himself, although she can’t be sure. She’d only known him for about three years and had only a vague idea of what his life was like before they met while both were in the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash.

“We were together my entire enlistment,” she said of the friend who died 11 years ago. “He was so funny.”

She and Bugden were in military intelligence, a small, close-knit unit.
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Walk in memory of friend who committed suicide

Four years ago I made this video about coming out of the dark of PTSD. Four years later, they are still dying by their own hands because so little has been done to save them. They need to understand what PTSD is and what it does to change them so they will find hope of healing.