Ohio Suicide Prevention Day

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Risk factors include mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or drug abuse. Others are impulsive acts due to stress such as from financial difficulties, troubles with relationships, or bullying. Those who have previously attempted suicide are at high risk of future attempts. Suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to method of suicide such as firearms and poisons, treating mental illness and drug misuse, proper media reporting of suicide, and improving economic conditions. Although crisis hotlines are common, there is little evidence for their effectiveness.

(Ohio Revised Code 5.2286 Ohio Suicide Prevention Day.

The tenth day of September is designated as "Ohio Suicide Prevention Day."

Added by 130th General Assembly File No. 23, HB 149, §1, eff. 9/27/2013.)

Source: ohio.gov

Anyone desperate enough for suicide should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

Richard Bach

Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better.

Kellin Quinn

Never never never give up.

Winston Churchill

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Juliette Lewis

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe