The statistics are startling. Look at them in the Focus section of this issue — the suicide scorecard for each community over a two-year period. Most disturbing is the number of young people. There’s a sad story behind each, and a difficult legacy left behind.
Families and friends, co-workers and classmates are left saddened and perplexed, a great void far too many years premature.
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The Samaritans, the organization that operates a suicide prevention hot line, is reaching out to businesses, to talk about the impact that suicide has on the workplace, to raise awareness and to find more volunteers. We cannot conceive of a more important mission.
To think it will bring about understanding is far too hopeful, because suicide in virtually all cases defies understanding. To comprehend the depths of despair that someone must endure to consider suicide is incomprehensible to most of us.
But to understand and learn of the scope of the problem — the number of people at risk — and to try to understand the impact it has in the family and in the workplace is something we can confront. We applaud the efforts of the Samaritans and urge businesses throughout our area to be receptive when they call.
