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Q One of the boys who was in my son’s class has very sadly committed suicide. He was 26. It shook us all. He wasn’t a particular friend of my son’s and I don’t know his parents well, but I’ve seen them over the years at school functions. Last week I saw his mother in the street and I’m embarrassed to admit that I hid in a shop.

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