It's still Suicide Prevention Day in Pacific time, a few minutes left before midnight. The Arctic spans many time zones including this one, but today's events for Inuit suicide prevention are over now. The challenge continues year-round.
Below is a short and timeless video elucidating reasons for suicide (some things transcend culture, like feelings of hopelessness). Kay Redfield Jamison with Charlie Rose on suicide and bipolar disorder, the Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry interviewed after publication of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. Creatively incomparable to that, here's comic book Darkness Calls (cover shown at left).
There is a lot of research (plus a memorial cookbook by survivors), but consider Emile Durkheim's words when pondering deaths. "Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."
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