Suicide Awareness

There were 49,430 suicides among individuals ages 12 and older in 2022. In 2020, suicide and nonfatal self-harm cost the nation over $500 billion in medical costs, work loss costs, value of statistical life, and quality of life costs. In 2022, there were 27,027 attempts of suicide by firearms between the ages of 10 to 14. I'm intending to inform people about the dangers that can happen if firearms aren't kept in a place where kids can't find them, so the suicide rates will go down. If more people kept them hidden and away from kids, I think the rates would go down by a lot. From 2018 to 2022, there have been 239,493 deaths because of suicide. I think schools should have more conversations about suicide because people need to be aware of signs of someone who wants to commit suicide. No one should ever have to suffer in silence.