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AFSP - Suicide Prevention

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research and education, and to reaching out to people with mood disorders and those impacted by suicide.

Articles from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention:
• Why Did This Happen?
• What Do I Do Now?
• When You Fear Someone May Take Their Life

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's

International Survivors of Suicide Day

Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012

Every year on the Saturday before American Thanksgiving, the AFSP sponsors International Survivors of Suicide Day, reaching out to thousands of people who have lost a loved one to suicide. The day of conferences connects survivors of suicide loss through a 90-minute webcast, allowing them to share their experiences of loss. The webcast features a panel of experienced survivors and mental health professionals and offers emotional support and information about resources for healing after the loss of a loved one to suicide.

The webcast will begin at 1:00 P.M. EST. Join together with other survivors by participating in a live online chat afterwards starting at 2:30 P.M. EST. To reach a wide group of survivors, the 2012 program is available for viewing with English captioning for the hearing impaired, or subtitles in French or Spanish.

Many of the local conference sites plan their own programs around the broadcast, including panels and breakout groups, all aimed at helping survivors heal. To find a conference site near you or to sign up to watch from your home computer, please visit http://www.afsp.org/survivorday.

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Comment by ConnieJean Carnahan on November 17, 2012 at 2:57pm: Not a day goes by that I don't think of Norman. I was the last person to see him alive, and will never forget how empty he was, and I "could see right through him." I left him in his apartment just long enough for me to go to my apartment to call family members. I knew we could get him Baker Acted, and maybe he would have gotten the help he needed. I can hear a certain song, and I still weep. He used carbon monoxide, and me and my husband pulled hin out of the car. He was already dead. God Help and Forgive Me

Comment by River of Tears on April 8, 2011 at 7:52am: Legacy has been such a wonderful and support venue for all that are dealing such pain where there may have been no other place for someone to go to have a voice to at least to share what they had deep inside of the sorrow of the loss of a loved one. If to see that maybe that you could add a discussion area so that if some are thinking of this or believe this is the only way out of what ever darkness they may be in that they too will have a way to find some light as all the many who you have helped with the loss in their loved ones. A link that would be accessable so that they could get immediate need be . As many times all that one needs is or someone to walk by there side and carry the light until they see where they can go . Unless the darkness even in grief as I know can be so dark and vast that it seems almost impossible to find even a bit of lite to tell youi all will be ok at least for now .
Just a thought for all the many who are in such pain as well as their families who then have to try to live on . This to me would be just another extenstion of what your true purpose is , at least it has for me to offer a comfort , a chance to have a voice , to give light to all because you care .. Seems so simple doesnt it.. If we all could not do that each and every day
Please take care to all

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