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'I lost my father to suicide': Schoolgirl's assembly on the hardest of subjects

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58% Informative

Evie Roodhouse and her sister lost their father in 2018 .

The 16-year-old hates the way other children at school joke about suicide.

She has decided to give a school assembly on the subject.

Evie wants people to be able to talk about the subject and understand how to talk.

Evie lost her father to suicide in 2018 when she was nine years old .

She gave a presentation to 80 children at Brighton Hill Community School .

Headmaster Chris Edwards said it was one of the most impressive things he'd seen in his career.

She also had sage advice on where teenagers can get help and organisations outside of school.

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60

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57

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40

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informal

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English

Language complexity

29

Offensive language

possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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