The mother of 20-year-old Cloudy Williams, who killed herself nearly three years ago, intends to continue campaigning for more openness and discussion of suicide by young people.
Debra Joy Williams, of Matapouri, remained dissatisfied today with Chief Coroner Neil MacLean's finding into the death of her daughter at Ngunguru Ford Rd, 20km northeast of Whangarei, on January 29, 2008.
She did not think problems surrounding the depressive effects of the contraceptive medication which Cloudy was using were taken into account.
"We need to know more about such side effects...and young people need to know more," Ms Williams, said after Judge MacLean's finding that Cloudy committed suicide.
She was found in the driver's seat of her car in a remote carpark with a hose connected from the exhaust into the car. She was 21.
Police concluded that she connected the hose and died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Judge MacLean said why Cloudy did what she did remained unexplained. While she had recently broken up with her boyfriend after a four-year on-again off-again relationship, she still appeared to be "her bright and bubbly self" and her mother had had no concerns.
But the evidence was that she planned the death by piping carbon monoxide poison from the exhaust of her car into the interior and she sat in the driver's seat. She left texts and garbled telephone messages which were not picked up until the day after she died.
There was some evidence which suggested she may have changed her mind while sitting in the car and managed to turn off the engine and open a door. However, medical evidence showed this was too late because carbon monoxide levels in her blood had reached 80 percent.
Judge MacLean concluded he was satisfied the evidence supported a finding of suicide. The fact she may have changed her mind did not alter that.
Under the terms of the Coroners Act, reporting of the circumstances of suicide is strictly controlled although coroners have discretionary powers to release information.
Judge MacLean allowed the evidence from the two-day inquest to be reported.
