Suicide takes the lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.

• Every 18 minutes another life is lost to suicide.
• Every day 80 Americans take their own lives and over 1,900 Americans visit Emergency Departments for self-inflicted injury (National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, total 706,000).
• Suicide is now the 11th leading cause of death in Americans.
• For every two victims of homicide in the U.S. there are three persons who take their own lives.
• There are now twice as many deaths due to suicide as to HIV/AIDS.
• Between 1952 and 1995, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.
• In the month prior to their suicide, 75% of elderly persons had visited a physician.
• Over half of all suicides occur in adult men, aged 25-65.
• Many who attempt suicide never seek professional care.
  
• Males are four times more likely to die from suicide than are females.
• More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined.