Suicide

The Burn Journals
The Burn Journals
by Brent Runyon
In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities.

Teen Suicide
by The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Suicides among young people nationwide have increased dramatically in recent years. Each year in the U.S., thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds, and the sixth leading cause of death for

Famous Suicides and What-Ifs ...
The Lost Soul Companion: A Book of Comfort and Constructive Advice for Black Sheep, Square Pegs, Struggling Artists, and Other Free Spirits
by Susan M. Brackney
Vincent van Gogh broke his younger brother's heart. Over the years, Theo van Gogh supported Vincent financially and emotionally despite his own frailties and commitments. He adored Vincent and did everything in his power to further his brother's art

Suicide in America
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Suicide is a tragic and potentially preventable public health problem. In 2000, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. Specifically, 10.6 out of every 100,000 persons died by suicide.

The Last Stop Pub
Cliffs of Despair: A Journey to the Edge
by Tom Hunt
A work of terrible sadness and harrowing revelations, Cliffs of Despair is the account of an unforgettable journey to a place where beauty and death collide.

John Kennedy Toole
The Lost Soul Companion: A Book of Comfort and Constructive Advice for Black Sheep, Square Pegs, Struggling Artists, and Other Free Spirits
by Susan M. Brackney
When I told my friend Stephanie about The Lost Soul Companion project, she told me about John Kennedy Toole. He wrote her favorite book, A Confederacy of Dunces - a fantastically funny novel about a guy named Ignatius Reilly and his adventures

Lost Souls Are Hothouse Flowers
The Lost Soul Companion: A Book of Comfort and Constructive Advice for Black Sheep, Square Pegs, Struggling Artists, and Other Free Spirits
by Susan M. Brackney
I've thought about killing myself many times. Maybe you have too. Hopefully I can convince us both that it's not such a good idea. For years, so-called 'experts' have said that even the mention of suicide to someone who is himself suicidal is tantamount

Prologue
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
Summer evenings at the Bistro Gardens in Beverly Hills tended toward the long and languorous. My friend Jack Ryan and I went there often when I lived in Los Angeles, and I invariably ordered the Dungeness crab and a scotch on the rocks. Not so invariably,

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. This is all the more striking, inasmuch as neither in the Old nor in the New Testament is there to be found any prohibition

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
The literature on suicide affords many instances of self-mutilations and ingenious modes of producing death. In the Dublin Medical Press for 1854 there is an extraordinary case of suicide, in which the patient thrust a red-hot poker into his abdomen

Suicide: Frequently Asked Questions
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
If someone tells you they are thinking about suicide, you should take their distress seriously, listen nonjudgmentally, and help them get to a professional for evaluation and treatment.

Older Adults: Depression and Suicide Facts
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Depression, one of the most common conditions associated with suicide in older adults, is a widely underrecognized and undertreated medical illness. In fact, several studies have found that many older adults who die by suicide - up to 75 percent

Suicide: Frequently Asked Questions, Part 2
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Although the majority of people who have depression do not die by suicide, having major depression does increase suicide risk compared to people without depression. The risk of death by suicide may, in part, be related to the severity of the depression.

Children and Suicide Warning Signs
by SAMHSA
Did you know that suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15- to 19-year-olds in the United States? Four times as many young men as young women die from suicide, but young women attempt suicide three times more often than young men.