More die from suicide than wars, murders: experts
By Matthew Verrinder Fri Sep 8, 3:29 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More people kill themselves each year than die from wars and murders combined, but most suicides could be prevented, two international experts on suicide said on Friday.
Some 20 million to 60 million try to kill themselves each year, but only about a million of them succeed, said Dr. Jose Manoel Bertolote, a mental health official at the
World Health Organization in Geneva.
The ones who do end their lives "are tragic situations where help could have been provided," said Brian Mishara, president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention in Gondrin, France.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060908/hl_nm/suicide_un_dcSad isn't it? Life is not wonderful for most of us..And the world IS NOT just .
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suicide...is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Wilfrid Sheed
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair.
It was easy enough to play the martyr.
It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
Erica Jong