ASIST: The Challenge

Every year more people die by suicide then from all of the several armed conflicts around the world and, in many places, about the same or more dying in traffic accidents. For every suicide, there may be up to 100 times more who are injured by nonfatal suicide behaviors. In any year, as many as 6% of the population have serious thoughts of suicide. How can further deaths and injuries be prevented? How can we support people to choose life when something prevents them from seeing a way forward?