Remy A Stressenger, Founder/President & Treasurer

Owner REMY Creations, LLC Boutiques (Boston & Nantucket)
Boston, Massachusetts

My first experience with suicide was my father taking his life when I was 7 years old, then an aunt took her life a few years later. I grew up not telling people about my father because there was a distinct reaction when someone heard he took his life. Suicide was a sin in the Catholic church and mental illness was handled behind closed doors with a stigma attached to it.

Now as a parent, I have experienced suicides through dear friends’ children taking their lives knowing that each time is a heart wrenching tragedy that effects a larger community deeply. These deaths haunt me and have given me a sense that a purpose of my life is to stop, or least lessen the occurrence of them, hence, LAUNCH2LIFE.