The day’s recognition is a chance to share hope and highlight the ways and resources to preventing suicide deaths, which were at the highest number ever last year in the U.S.
"Suicide is a public health issue for us as a country," Stephen Roggenbaum told LiveNOW from FOX. He’s the chair of the Florida Suicide Prevention Coalition.
The rate fell slightly in 2019. It dropped again in 2020, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some expertsseen in the early stages of wars and natural disasters, when people pull together and support each other.
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