Links/Resources

"Suicide is a particularly awful way to die; the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense, and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death not uncommonly is violent and grisly.

The suffering of the suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. "

From Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison


Organizations:

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

http://www.afsp.org/

National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/Default.aspx

National Suicide Hotline 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)