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Why Do More Men than Women Die by Suicide?

September 30, 2024
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Almost 80 percent of suicides are completed by men. 80%. And suicide is the second-leading cause of death in men under forty-five years old. Three of these men who died by suicide are my relatives: my father when I was a college…
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Suicidism and Suicide Prevention

January 8, 2024
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Editor’s Note: This guest post by Alexandre Baril, PhD, is a departure from Speaking of Suicide’s usual fare, both in style and content. It’s a lightly edited excerpt from Dr. Baril’s book Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted)…
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How I Survived My Son’s Suicide

August 9, 2023
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My husband and I were sitting in a police car when we got the news my son Charles, 20, died by suicide in 2015. That’s the moment I left my former self on a shelf somewhere in the past and this new…

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