Here’s How to Help Near and Dear Ones Contemplating Suicide

Here’s How to Help Near and Dear Ones Contemplating Suicide
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Every 40 seconds, someone in the world takes their own life.

That’s at least 800,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and the numbers are rising in some parts of the world. In the United States alone, suicide rates have increased by 35 percent between 1999 and 2018.