suicide

Detective Hank Palace and the rest of America learn that an asteroid is due to collide with Earth in six months wiping out all life. The economy suffers, churches flourish, and suicides escalate but Hank continues to do his job, investigating a death by hanging that looks suspicious.

An unnamed narrator describes how high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree to commit suicide. As Liz hovers near death, her friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital remembering her in flashbacks that count down to her accident.

Francis Meredith is a boy who is interested in fashion and costuming, which has made him a target at school, but when he meets Jessica and Andi his life begins to change--Andi is an athletic girl with a reputation for fighting and family in the fashion business, and Jessica is a ghost who has no idea how she died.

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find he has been admitted to the psychiatric ward after trying to kill himself and is offended that anyone would think he has anything in common with the other "crazies" in the hospital with him, but as his stay lengthens he begins to see he is more like them than he thought.

Sent to live with her grandmother in the Adirondacks after her brother's grisly crime, Laney soon uncovers secrets that have haunted her family for years.

As part of herself observes, eighteen-year-old Oona Antunes attempts suicide, tries to pull her family and her life back together, and begins to understand her own problems and those of her parents before finally becoming one with herself again.

"What is the Silence of Six, and what are you going to do about it?" These are the last words uttered by 17-year-old Max Stein's best friend Evan just moments before he kills himself after hacking into the live-streaming Presidential debate at their high school"--Jacket flap.

A young American couple--Elly and Fred--win a pub on the southern most tip of Ireland and discover the body of an eccentric villager Elly knows floating in the sea.

Suicide is a formidable problem, with at least thirty-six thousand people in the United States killing themselves each year. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations, this title examines the issue of suicide and efforts to prevent it.

Discusses the emotions of losing someone by suicide and suggests ways of dealing with them.