Survivors often comment about how remote suicide seemed to them before they lost a loved one to it; the real question is why we persist in believing it’s rare, when it is really anything but. Someone in America dies by suicide every thirteen minutes—40,000 people a year. That is anything but insignificant.
Looking it up on 08/05/25, in the USA someone dies by suicide approximately every 11 minutes. That translates to around 132 suicide deaths per day. According to the CDC, over 49,400 people died by suicide in the USA in 2022.
