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My little brother, Chris Archer, took his life July 6, 2017; he turned 44 just two days earlier.One year later it is still unbelievable to me, with...

  Rachael Arielle Stacey, the third of four girls. A quirky and expressive, red haired, blue eyed girl with freckles. Rachael was an energetic, h...

Suicide. I understood it. I had the compassion and calmness to deescalate it. I had so much love in me, I could talk the knives off of friends' wr...

I lost my sister Rachael to suicide just after her 18th birthday. I had so much hope for her because she was doing a lot better than she had in...

In 2009, just a few months before my 18th birthday, and what would have been her 49th birthday, I lost my mother to suicide. She had struggled ...

I can remember, I started feeling suicidal when I was 13. I was a sad and lonely child, but when I was more so in my teens, I started feeling e...

Recently I've found suicide is often like cancer, it has either touched you or someone you know. A childhood friend passed by her own hand at 1...

He said "I love you. Have a good day, Ben" and then the call ended. He later that day proceeded to take his life. No one knew that the next day t...

I grew up around the corner from the Stacey family and spent most of my childhood discovering life with Rachael. She was one of my closest friend...

The first time I can remember having suicidal thoughts was around age 11 or 12. Oddly enough, I have this quite vivid memory of such an awful t...