A few days ago Amy Bleuel , a leader in the suicide prevention and advocacy movement, Took her own life. Amy came up with the semicolon idea. That just like a semicolon, you can continue even when “your sentence” seems finished. The organization’s tagline is: “Your story isn’t over.”
Another Suicide Advocate wrote: "Suicide prevention work is done almost exclusively by people who have lost someone to suicide or who have experienced their own suicidality. Often, the calling to suicide prevention comes close on the heels of a near miss with an attempt, or the suicide death of someone we love, and it comes with urgency. In that way, it puts many of us in a precarious position: we so desperately want to save others from suicide that we forget to save ourselves. We dive in with our life raft before we learn to swim."
It is not about head knowledge of suicide. From the World Health Organization: At a more personal level, it is important to know that only a small number of suicides happen without warning. Most people who die by suicide give definite warnings of their intentions. Therefore, all threats of self-harm should be taken seriously. In addition, a majority of people who attempt suicide are ambivalent and not entirely intent on dying. Many suicides occur in a period of improvement when the person has the energy and the will to turn despairing thoughts into destructive action. However, a once-suicidal person is not necessarily always at risk: suicidal thoughts may return but they are not permanent and in some people they may never return. Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
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