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About four years ago, several suicides happened in area high schools, said Iuri Melo, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in St. George. His friend, a principal, reached out to him for ideas to deal with the tremendous pressure he faced trying to respond to tragedy in his school. And I want to do more. I have to be more proactive, I have to be more preventative, Melo recalled the principal telling him.
The therapist and others began brainstorming ways to reach students who need help.
By ALLISON SCHAEFERS | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: April 12, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The death of a sailor of a self-inflicted gunshot after a barricade situation at the The Kahala Hotel & Resort was the third tied to Hawaii s submarine force in the past 16 months. The Navy confirmed that the sailor was assigned to the Pacific Fleet submarine force. However, they did not release the sailor s identity, military assignment or rank. The incident began before 6 p.m. Saturday when the 40-year-old man barricaded himself in a room at the hotel and communicated with family that he was suicidal, according to the Honolulu Police Department s Criminal Investigative Division.
NEW YORK â The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic â the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data.
Death certificates are still coming in and the count could rise. But officials expect a substantial decline will endure, despite worries that COVID-19 could lead to more suicides.
It is hard to say exactly why suicide deaths dropped so much, but one factor may be a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters, some experts suggested. There s a heroism phase in every disaster period, where we re banding together and expressing lots of messages of support that we re in this together, said Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. You saw that, at least in the early months of the pandemic.
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Apr 9, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data.
Death certificates are still coming in and the count could rise. But officials expect a substantial decline will endure, despite worries that COVID-19 could lead to more suicides.
It is hard to say exactly why suicide deaths dropped so much, but one factor may be a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters, some experts suggested.
“There’s a heroism phase in every disaster period, where we’re banding together and expressing lots of messages of support that we’re in this together,” said Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “You saw that, at least in the early months of the pandemic.”
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