1) When You're Left Behind ~ The Magnitude Of The Problem

1 ] When You're Left Behind

~ The Magnitude Of The Problem

" With much wisdom comes much sorrow; 

the more knowledge, the more grief "

Those ancient words are all too true for those who face the sobering impact and frequency of suicide.  "Death has been called the 'the new obscenity,' the nasty thing which no polite person nowadays will talk about in public."  If that's the case, suicide is the proverbial elephant in the room that everyone would rather ignore than talk about.  "While suicides often take place in isolation, they never are unnoticed by others."  There are over one million suicides worldwide every year, each leaving behind at least 6 and often 10 or more survivors to wrestle with the aftershock. About 32,000 suicides occur in the US alone each year. That's one every 17 minutes, making it the eleventh leading cause of death. More people in the US die each year by suicide than by HIV or homicide. It is estimated that in the US alone there are well over 5 million suicide survivors, and more than 12,000 children who will lose a parent this year to suicide. While those numbers alone are are staggering, it's even more sobering to learn that for every death by suicide there are 25 attempts. Yet such statistics do not even begin to reveal the oceans of despair behind them.

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