2015 WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY
Since 2003, September 10 has been set aside yearly as the World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). The day serves as a clarion call to action to individuals and organizations to take urgent proactive steps to prevent suicide and save lives across the globe. It has been said that every 30seconds, someone is committing suicide. A recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that over 800,000 people die by suicide across the world each year. The report notes that this estimate is conservative, with the real figure likely to be higher because of the stigma associated with suicide, lack of reliable death recording procedures, and religious or legal sanctions against suicide in some countries. Suicide data from the WHO shows that it is a global phenomenon in all regions of the world; in fact, 75% of global suicide occurred in low- and middle-income countries in 2012. Suicide accounted for 1.4...