Suicide Summary

Suicide and Substance Abuse With 29,000 annual victims, SUICIDE is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Alcohol and illicit drugs are involved in about 50 percent of all suicide att... Read more

Suicide SUICIDE. The topic of religiously motivated suicide is a complex one. Several of the major religious traditions reject suicide as a religiously justifiable act but commend martyrdom; among the... Read more

Suicide Each year an estimated thirty thousand Americans commit suicide. Several years ago, the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center profiled those individuals at greatest risk for suicide as elderly... Read more

Suicide/Suicidai Behavior Alternative terms: Deliberate self-harm The phenomenon of deliberate self-harm, often with a wish to die. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents, occur... Read more

SUICIDE—CATASTROPHIC, HEARTBREAKING, and baffling—stands out as a large social issue. The tenth leading cause of death in the United States, suicide is indeed an urgent problem. About eigh... Read more

“Sometimes the most difficult thing in the world is to choose to endure life.” Edwin S. Shneidman, The Suicidal Mind,1996 In May 1996, the U.S. Navy’s top admiral, Jeremy “... Read more