Numbers That Beg to Be Heard
Youth suicide is an extremely painful and difficult subject.
At BecomeOne, we want to treat people's pain with dignity and delicate tenderness. At the same time, the hard numbers are all too real.
Hopefully they will help us listen to those who still yearn to be heard.
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EVERY 21 SECONDS
a young person in the U.S.
attempts suicide.*
That’s over 4,000
young people attempting suicide
every day*
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EVERY DAY
11 of them succeed.*
That’s roughly 1 youth suicide
every 2 hours,
every day.
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EVERY YEAR
More young people die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED.*
Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for ages 10-24.*
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What cannot be measured is the depth of despair and sorrow so many families are going through.
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When a young person dies by suicide, the world forever loses everything that young person would have become and every contribution they would have ever made.