Once every minutes someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy times a day these attempts succeed. Suicide, now in an updated and expanded edition, provides information on suicide statistics and gives advice on how to recognize the warning signs of a potential suicide attempt, how to intervene when a suicide has been attempted, and how to comfort families and friends who have lost a loved one to suicide. This edition contains a discussion of euthanasia and living wills and a list of crisis/intervention centers around the United States. With suicide a major killer of people of all ages, this book is an invaluable resources for professionals and anyone touched by this tragedy.