FROM THE AUTHOR
On average, one person dies by suicide every 13 hours in my home state of Louisiana.
In the United States: 123 suicides per day.
Average 44,965 suicides a year.
Only 1 in every 25 attempts,
Which means that in America alone, 1,124,125 people attempt to commit suicide each year.
Globally, 800 000 suicides every year, one every 40 seconds.
Thought to be only 1 in every 20 attempts,
Which means around the world 16,000,000 people attempt to commit suicide each year.
(American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and World Health Organization)
the highest risk period is 3 months following a suicide attempt.
SUICIDE
Deciding to commit suicide doesn’t happen overnight, it starts when a person adds death on their list of solutions to a problem and it grows over months or y
