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The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns. Thus, these figures cannot be used to compare real suicide rates, which are unknown in most countries.
This collection seeks original research on suicide prevention: risk factors, warning signs, and strategies. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, validated social media-based studies, and ...
Milly Tuomey, aged 11, died by suicide in 2016. Her family reflect on how the system let her down, coping with grief and why it’s important to remove the stigma linked to suicide
The researchers found that 30 percent of the screened teens who later self-harmed or died by suicide had reported no thoughts of suicide or self-harm on a questionnaire.
When a suicide occurs, people want to know, why do teens commit suicide? Some people consider their teenage years the happiest years of their lives, so a teen suicide just doesn't make sense to them. But teens can suffer real pain and be in terrible situations and these can cause teen suicides.
Answers to questions about suicide. The Suicide FAQ is an attempt to raise awareness about suicide, so that we may be better able to recognize and help other people in crisis, and also to find how to seek help or make better choices ourselves.
Suicide is universally accepted to be a tragedy, and a preventable one at that, for many patients. Healthcare providers are sentinels charged with protecting patients from severe mental illness and suicide. Yet the issue of suicide and physician-assisted dying has changed considerably in recent years.
