September 10, Friday, is World Suicide Prevention Day and International Association for Suicide Prevention is urging everyone to light a candle at 8 in the evening to remember those who have died by committing suicide and those who survived it.
Also this year attempts are being made to bring attention to the differences among suicidal individuals and their situations around the world.
According to the organizers everyone across the world need one thing and it is that for good mental health they need to feel connected with each other.
According to the World Health Organization, every year there one million suicides all over the world. It added that one of the top three causes of deaths around the world is suicide.
After road accidents, suicide is the second leading cause of death among people age 10 to 24.
Lanny Berman, president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, pointed out that suicide rates differ from country to country and there must be different prevention measures to battle suicides.
He said, "The focus is on the primary methods of suicide in developing countries which have been pesticides, pesticide poisoning and overdose. And there have been some significant efforts to develop prevention programs to reduce the use of pesticides, the availability and accessibility of pesticide."
