It occurs in families where abuse is present, but also in supportive and loving families. What is missing is awareness and understanding. The incidence of suicide is high for those abusing drugs and alcohol, but it is also high in elderly white males. Statistically, women have lower suicide rates than men, but that is little comfort to children growing up without a mother because she chose to end her life. The joys of youth are cut tragically short when despair turns to self-destructive action.
Suicide is seen as the final solution to a perceived insoluble problem.
Suicide will impact your life. It may be a friend, a neighbor, a loved one, a celebrity or someone in your community whom you and others needed, admired, loved or respected. The problem of suicide is a very real. Individually, and as a nation, we need to realize is that there is no data to prove that dead people live better lives. Whether killed by a fellow turkey hunter, or through some self- inflicted injury, dead is dead.