It’s been almost three years since Julia Buencamino, youngest child of award-winning film and theater actors Nonie Buencamino and Shamaine Centenera, died by suicide. Though the journey has been long and arduous, and there are still days when the pain is unbearable, today, the couple is in a much better place, where their personal advocacy is to ensure that parents and caregivers of people with mental health issues keep talking and listening more to those who are under their care.
Shamaine Centenera Buencamino can laugh at the absurdity of things now, although it is a laugh still shot through with so much palpable pain, you worry that she will burst into tears any minute.
Julia’s suicide a year ago devastated them, but ‘We want to make something meaningful out of this experience, and we hope that, we being actors, people would listen’
