One american dies every 12 minutes to suicide. Suicide rates have increased over the past ten years.

Stigma kills.

Some projects are aimed at tackling suicide in men. The UK has CALM Zone (The Campaign Against Living Miserably) and Australia has Soften the Fuck Up.

https://thecalmzone.net/

http://softenthefckup.spurprojects.org/

Perhaps people in the US know of good quality initiatives? (Certainly the "Zero suicide" stuff from Detroit has been useful for me when I'm trying to change people's attitudes that death by suicide is somehow inevitable for some populations.)

> Another says it didn’t happen exactly that way. But whatever went down, by the time the friend arrived at the truck, parked just outside, Mirra was already dead, a suicide, the police established, with no room to hope it was a mistake. When Mayor Thomas arrived at the scene, the front door of the truck was open and family members were beginning to arrive. Mirra’s friends and the cops all stood around, “staring at the rain, like, What in the world has happened?”

> In the tiny, tight-knit clan of 40-something BMXers, many could not believe that Mirra intended to commit suicide.

Some people wonder why the US's suicide rate is lower than the UK. This paragraph snippet hints at some of the difficulties in counting deaths by suicide.

If I shoot my self is that a death by suicide? Or an accidental death? If I overdose on opiate pain meds was that a deliberate choice, or an accident caused by confusion?

You can't leave it to coroners - there's too much variability (some didn't want to rule a death as suicide because they thought the family would find that too distressing) and because death by suicide has to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt while most other deaths can use the balance of probability.

The UK uses this definition:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

> Statistics on causes of death produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are based on the information provided at death registration. These statistics are provided to the Department of Health on an annual basis. Open verdicts are generally coded by the ONS as deaths from injury or poisoning of undetermined intent. When national statistics are presented, suicides and deaths of undetermined intent are combined. This reflects research studies which show that the majority of open verdicts are most likely suicides, although they do not meet the high legal standard of evidence required for a coroner to record a suicide verdict. Therefore official suicide rates are measured by a definition that is broader than the definition of suicide used by coroners.

> In the remainder of this update we use the term suicide to refer to deaths from both intentional self-harm and injury or poisoning of undetermined intent.

The US uses a different definition:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/definitions.ht...

> Suicide

>Death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior.

If the US used the UK definition suicide would be the leading cause of death for men aged between about 11 to about 49. Suicide is still common in people over 50, but other causes of death (heart disease, cancer) start taking over.

Even with their tighter definition suicide is a leading cause of death in the US - ranked second for ages 10 to 34. (But see all that unintentional injury ahead of it) http://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of...