WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A funeral home in Toronto is drawing attention to mental health issues facing international students as it increasingly repatriates the remains of young men and women to India.
IRCC said it does not track the remains of foreign nationals sent back to their home countries. Statistics Canada says while it does collect information on deaths, there is not enough information to determine whether the deceased was a foreign student.
Both the consulate's student and suicide numbers also rose in 2022 — when 25 out of 236,565 died and seven were confirmed as suicides — though as a percentage of the student population the change seems proportional.So far this year, consulate officials say another eight students had died by March. Two of those were confirmed as suicides.
When those students can't keep up with the "expectations of their families and friends … from a South Asian perspective, it's a matter of life and death when they feel they have failed." said Singh. "We've followed up with the majority of them once they've gotten back and the families are very thankful they were able to understand what their child was going through," Kahlon said.
Josh Sankarlal, a board member with the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance , says institutions have historically struggled to address student mental health, but international students' mental health is especially nuanced.
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