Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Nash brings a message of hope to students

Musician and inspirational speaker shares his story with Moose Jaw students on World Suicide Prevention Day

Robb Nash performs at one of his two shows
for high school students at the Convention Centre
at the Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds on Sept.10,
2015, which was World Suicide Prevention Day.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald 

By Lisa Goudy

Robb Nash has already been dead.

He was 17 years old when he was in a head-on collision with a semi truck. Found with a fractured skull, first responders pronounced him dead.

By the time the ambulance arrived, however, his pulse had returned. He went into a coma for a few days, but he lost about three months of memory. When he woke up, he had a metal plate in his head and in his chest.

"It wasn't an enlightening moment when I woke up from my coma. I wasn't just excited to be alive. I was really bitter about everything that happened to me," said Nash prior to his afternoon show at the Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds for high school students on Thursday, which was World Suicide Prevention Day.

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