Every year on September 10th, we celebrate World Suicide Prevention Day. We celebrate it as a day of awareness to provide a worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides around the world. We do this with different activities around the globe. This day is endorsed by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization better known as IASP and WHO. This international day began in 2003.

Back in 2011, about 40 different countries participated in the occasion and awareness. The United Nations has been assisting with different countries since the 1990s in suicide awareness. Many are grateful that it is now a recognized day and has various activities celebrated around the world.

Let’s look at some of the facts about suicide. In 2011, it was estimated that about a million people a year die by suicide. That is a death every forty seconds, or close to 3000 a day. That is a lot. Remember, this is not even considering the people who have failed suicide attempts. WHO has stated that for every 20 people who have attempted suicide, only one is successful. That is too high of a number for most of us to fathom. That means that most of us know at least one person who have attempted suicide.

Most people who commit, or at least attempt to commit suicide are between the ages of 15-24. Think back at what a vulnerable time that was for you at that age. You just had to know that it gets better, but for some people they do not always believe this. WHO also stated that suicides count for half of the violent deaths that occur in the world? More people kill themselves than people who diet in wars and are involved in terrorist acts. That is according to IASP. That is too much to fathom. That is why World Suicide Prevention Day is so very important to the world. It can help unite us even just for one day.

Since becoming an annual event in 2003, each year has had a different theme. 2003 kicked it off with “Suicide Can Be Prevented”. This year in 2016 our theme is “Connect, Communicate, Care”. How can you participate you ask? Well here are some ideas for World Suicide Prevention Day 2016: Connect, Communicate Care:

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