My name is Marcel Roston. I am 47 years of age and a father of three beautiful children. I live in North Las Vegas and I am a survivor of loss by suicide.

My daughter Chloe Marie, at age of 17, died by suicide on March 26, 2014. From that day forward, I had a choice to heal or hurt.

I knew very well how to hurt; I had been abused by my father for years. The healing was a journey that would bring me across the U.S. three times during the pandemic. I began to share my story on social media about the impact the loss of my daughter by suicide had on my life emotionally. People reached out or commented on my story sharing their own need to have their pain be heard.

As I drove across the United States, I asked my daughter for emotional clarity, freedom from guilt, shame, and most of all where I belonged in life.

Fortunately, everything I was back then is different now. I am currently in a better place and I seek now to eradicate deaths by suicide in young people all over the world. I have over 100 signatures on my truck of those who have died by suicide. There are some famous, some elite, my daughter, and many people I have met traveling this country.

I am a dad who has taken on the challenge of ending suicide and to make a difference in the world like any father would want for his daughter.

I plan to travel the country again this year and deliver a message of hope, healing, help, and humanity to schools and companies along the way.

Marcel Roston