“Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt.”

—  Antonella Gambotto-Burke, book The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 148.

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Australian author and journalist 1965

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