ABSTRACT
The chapter serves as an opening case illustration of complicated grief, although, of course, other examples could have idiographically demonstrated such grief. The intent is to show the association of complicated grief to suicide, a final action in a grieving person/people. Across the Arctic, the Inuit have rates of suicide that are three to four times the Canadian average. The narrative approach will give readers a better understanding of the complicated grief in the Arctic. Indeed, narrative knowing or story telling is the tradition of the Inuit. The chapter reports some stories from the author’s travels in the Arctic followed by a record of the questions from the audience at the London conference about the stories. Suicide in the Arctic is an expression of extraordinary complicated grief. It is a response to generation after generation of an intentional cultural genocide, and at times, genocide of the Inuit.
