This is the last picture of a 26-year-old before he ended his life - this is the picture his family want you to see

People often associate pictures relating to suicide of people with their head in the hands or just looking sad. But the image of Steffan Rees smiling with his baby niece doesn't show this at all.

His sister Sian described Steffan as the "life and soul of the party" and someone who "lit up the room". This is what made his suicide so shocking and why she is now so passionate about helping others, WalesOnline reports.

"I couldn't have asked for a better brother," says Sian. "He was only 26, had a loving family, a beautiful girlfriend, and didn't say anything about having any mental health issues."

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Together with widows Lisa and Ana, who have also been bereaved through suicide, they have set up a support group for people in west Wales, and this week they have taken part in a UK awareness campaign. New research from suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) has found that 61 per cent of people would struggle to tell if someone they knew felt suicidal.

The charity wants to raise awareness that the ‘face of suicide’ isn’t always crying and being recluse – a person might seem happy on the outside, and to illustrate this, the charity has unveiled an exhibition on London’s Southbank called The Last Photo. The outdoor gallery displays 50 smiling photos taken in the last days of people who died by suicide. It also shares the stories of shock and grief their families and friends experienced. Steffan was included in the moving exhibition.

LISS - Living in Suicide Shadow - is another support group that took part in the exhibition. Peter Hammett's wife Lisa and Lee's wife Ana set up the group because of