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Traina was the son of Danielle Steel and William George Toth. Traina died by suicide by overdosing on morphine at the age of 19. Career. Traina started his first band, Shanker, at age 13 with Max Leavitt. He joined Link 80 at age 16 and played with them for three years, touring extensively.
Nick committed suicide in the 90-minute window in his nursing schedule, at 4:30 a.m., on the only night in five years that his psychiatric counselor, who loved him dearly, had gone away.
From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother’s joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel’s powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness.
His Bright Light was written as a tribute to Danielle Steel's son, Nick Traina who was born with bi-polar disorder and committed suicide at the age of nineteen. This is a well written, detailed account chronicling his life and everything he/she went through trying to get help within the medical community.
Nicholas John Steel Traina, who headed a punk band, was found dead Saturday morning at a home he shared with several other people in Pleasant Hill, northeast of San Francisco. Traina was dead...
Nick’s independence led him to refuse to take his medication. Using a combination of drugs, including heroin, he attempted suicide once, twice, then three times. Legal intervention was used to make sure he received care.
His life included multiple psychiatric admissions for drug abuse and manic-depressive illness, round-the-clock caretakers, a surrogate mother who tag-teamed with his own mother, and three serious suicide attempts, the last of which ended his life at age 19.
