World Suicide Prevention Day

September 10th is World Suicide Awareness Day. Every 40 seconds, a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. The goal of WSAD is to increase awareness of the public health significance of suicide and suicide attempts, and to make suicide prevention a higher priority on the global public health agenda. But numbers can only tell a small fraction of the story. The rest of the story is below. 

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I’ve had the pleasure of being able to write for Daily Cannon since April 2011. Having an opinion is one thing, but being able to…