Problem
You are bored in addition to depressed in addition to accept a vacation or chore abroad. You run into other depressed people who are into drugs or talking well-nigh suicide.
Who is most at risk?
Singapore
In Singapore sucide is the leading travail of choke or ages 10-29. Suicide causes to a greater extent than deaths, 2.4 times more, than carry accidents. In i twelvemonth (2016) in that place were 429 suicides.
Answers
Travel. Avoid people who become you lot down. Volunteer to assistance people.
Provide a listening ear. If people are planning suicide, contact the emergency services.
Here are roughly helplines, past times province alphabetically:
Australia
thirteen eleven 14
Singapore Samaritans
https://www.sos.org.sg
24 hr medical services 995
UK Samaritans
116 123
USA Helplines
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Suicide prevention lifeline
1-800 273 8255
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides
Listings include:
Tony Hancock
Ernest Hemingway
Marilyn Monroe
Sylvia Plath
Vincent Van Gogh
Virginia Wolf
http://www.samaritansusa.org
Author
Angela Lansbury, travle writer, author in addition to speaker