The personal loss that led Mark Coles Smith to work on SBS documentary Keeping Hope

In Keeping Hope, you share the experience of losing your best friend to suicide in your 20s. Tell me about him and the impact of his loss. It was one of the most difficult experiences in my life; a very intimate loss. It was a connection that I had with someone I’ve never had since. And I was the last person with him. I have to carry that awareness – the question of what I could have done better – for the rest of my life. You only get one chance to save someone’s life and I missed it….