Bringing Attention to Differences in Suicide Around the World
07 September 2010
Brigadier General Stephen Townsend speaks to soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky about suicide prevention last year
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
This Friday is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year's observance is meant to bring attention to the differences among suicidal individuals and their situations around the world.
But the organizers also say that all over the world, people have something in common. They need to feel connected to others for good mental health.
The organizers include the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization.
The World Health Organization says that every year about one million people kill themselves. It says suicide is one of the top three causes of death among people between the ages of fifteen and forty-four.
Among people age ten to twenty-four, suicide is the second leading cause of death, after road accidents.
Lanny Berman is president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He points out that suicide rates differ from country to country, as do common ways that people kill themselves. As a result, he says, prevention efforts must fit with local needs.
LANNY BERMAN: "The focus is on the primary methods of suicide in developing countries which have been pesticides, pesticide poisoning and overdose. And there have been some significant efforts to develop prevention programs to reduce the use of pesticides, the availability and accessibility of pesticide."
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