"This is where he'd come out, smoke, have a cigarette - I feel him here,"
"I tend to talk to him here."
"It's just like a big, huge tsunami came in and wiped everything out,"
Timothy J. Kimball, 37, died by suicide at his home in Raynham, Massachusetts on March 15. His backyard work shed still holds his paint buckets, trowels and hard hat, where his father visits to feel close to him. Kimball worked as a drywall finisher and came from three generations of tradespeople. More than 300 people attended his wake. The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates of any major industry, second only to mining according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Construction workers also suffer higher rates of drug overdose deaths and about 1,000 annual work-related injury fatalities.
Read at Boston.com
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