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Sue Roche is a Colorado native. After losing a son by suicide in 2010, Sue began volunteering with the Carson J. Spencer Foundation ("CJSF") in 2012. She currently holds the volunteer role of Community Liaison with CJSF. She also serves as a Board Member for the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado. Sue became a volunteer with The Denver Hospice in 2013. She provides Reiki therapy, direct patient care in home settings as well as at the Inpatient Care Center and is a member of the Speakers Bureau. Whether volunteering for The Denver Hospice or in suicide awareness efforts, Sue strives to bring compassion and dignity to those with whom she is honored to be present.
This mask is Sue's rendering of a dragonfly with a semicolon body. Many cultures revere dragonflies as symbols of purity, transformation, good luck or strength. There is a dragonfly story that is sometimes used to help explain a loved one's passing to children. Sue uses a semicolon as the body because in writing, authors may choose to use a semicolon to continue their thought/sentence/story instead of ending it with a period. The semicolon has been embraced as a symbol among suicide attempt survivors and suicide loss survivors as an affirmation of life; choosing to continue the story; choosing life.
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