Helping to prevent suicide during stressful pandemic

With the pandemic increasing rates of depression and anxiety among all populations and especially those struggling with mental illness, organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have issued warnings about an increase in deaths by suicides.

Helping those grieving suicide

Catholic Charities’ Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide (LOSS) program was established 43 years ago by Father Charles Rubey and three families who lost children to suicide. At the time, there were not many resources available specifically for survivors of suicide loss, whose grief journey is much different.

Program aims to help veterans affected by suicide

Eileen Hurn knows all too well how veterans are affected by suicide. Hurn’s husband, Brian, died by suicide in October 2013. He was a veteran, a Navy corpsman in the peacetime Navy of the late 1970s, working as a paramedic when he died. In a column she wrote for the Obelisk, the newsletter of the Loving Outreach of Survivors of Suicide, she said he was one of 22 veterans to die from suicide that day.

LOSS: Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide

About a million people die by suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Additionally, for each of those victims, scores of other people are profoundly affected, living each day with grief and loss.

Experts: approach issue of suicide through mercy - New government study reveals suicide rate in United States increased in recent years

A recent upsurge in the suicide rate in the United States has spawned headlines and worry. As res...

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