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Jan Pentland Foundation Dinner

The 2011 Jan Pentland Foundation Dinner was held on Thursday May 19th at the Crowne Plaza, Coogee Beach, Sydney. Christine Nixon was the guest speaker. Jan’s former partner, Dr David Morawetz gave a brief speech.

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Life without Jan Pentland-2 years later | 15.8.11 | by Dr David Morawetz

Today it is two years since my dear partner Jan Pentland died by suicide. This is the LAST in what turns out to have been a 3-email series on “Life without Jan Pentland”: 3 months later, 9 months later, and now 2 years later. You are receiving it because you offered me condolences after Jan’s death — thanks again for that.

Why write one more email in this series? (a) Because a number of you have asked me to do so. (b) Because I believe that suicide, grieving, and “is there life after major loss?” are issues that we don’t talk about enough.

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