Family still seeking answers after soldier's suicide
CTV News.ca Staff
Date: Wed. Jul. 20 2011 6:24 PM ET
More than three years after a soldier committed suicide following a struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, his family is still fighting for answers about what went wrong.
Corp. Stuart Langridge, 29, was a promising young soldier who dedicated his life to the military. But on March 15, 2008, he took his own life by hanging himself in his barracks at CFB Edmonton.
Langridge, who served in Bosnia and Afghanistan, had been suffering from post-traumatic stress, alcohol and substance abuse upon his return from a six-month tour in Afghanistan in 2005.
Though his family didn't know it at the time, he had attempted suicide on six occasions.
"We had no idea how seriously ill Stuart was. We only knew parts of what was going on; we didn't understand the full extent of it," his father Shaun Fynes told CTV's Canada AM Wednesday from Victoria.
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Family still seeking answers after soldier's suicide
All I can say is I pray God holds this soldier and his family through this... We need God to end this anger that the military shows towards people who minds are hurting. This is NOT lack of discipline. This is a soldier who is scared, hurt, and feels alone. No matter what stresses cause the initial pain, every successive stress increases the pain. Let us be willing to live in sacrifice to those who are hurting. Let us give until THEY no longer need our service because THEY have already given for us... God, please help us to help each other. Help us to love each other, please.
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