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“I will probably think about it every single day for the rest of my life,” says Dylan.

For Sharon, the past three months have oscillated between grief and anger, heartbreak and bewilderment. “When you look back, there are a lot of what-ifs,” says Sharon. “What if I had done this? What if I had done that?”

She believes things might have turned out differently had she been able to visit Greg in the hospital, talk to him, help him. “He was pretty isolated,” she says.

Dylan says his father never should have been allowed to leave the hospital on his own. “I would have gone to help him, but no one told me,” he says. “It was terribly handled, to be honest.”

The Royal has launched an internal review of the case, but officials will not publicly discuss Greg’s diagnoses or course of treatment. Findings and recommendations made by the hospital’s quality of care review will be shared with the family.

After the OC Transpo bus crash, three dozen lawsuits were filed against the City of Ottawa by injured passengers and victims’ families. But Greg didn’t want to take part in legal action because he didn’t believe he had been damaged by the crash.

His family members believe differently.

“It had to be the trigger,” says Sharon.

“It’s the only thing that makes sense, the only thing, for him to change that much,” says Dylan. “Before that he was happy, normal.”

Greg did not leave a suicide note. He didn’t carry a wallet or identification on the day he died. In his pockets, police found only money — $125 in crisp bills — and four OC Transpo bus tickets.