ISP (International Suicide Prevention), a
non-profit organization.
Life is hard at times, that's when ISP
comes in to help!
ISP is a
nonprofit 501(c)(3) a public charity.
Visit ISP's official web site at:
http://www.supportisp.org
Suicide prevention is a very important
and needed cause to support.
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Suicide affects every one that knew the
individual that commits it!
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Every suicide directly affects seven people (on
average), and those seven people are seven times more likely to
attempt suicide later on in life.
It has been over eighteen years since I
attempted suicide, the President of ISP. Two years ago I went public with how and
why I did it. I wrote a book about my experience and it is called,
“My Last Breath.” During the writing of my story I did some research
on suicide and up until this point I was working on a very micro bases
involving suicide prevention. I learned that over one million people
kill themselves each year and that this number is more likely double
because of the lack of reporting methods in most countries. One
million people is hard to put your mind around so, look at this
picture of the super bowl. Roughly one hundred thousand people were
in attendance.
That’s right!
Ten times the amount of people in this picture commit suicide, each
year!
Click on any picture to enlarge!
They were, and are going to be in the future,
someone’s friend, Daughter, Son, Mother, Father, Grandparent, and
Grandchildren. Does it really matter? Should it
matter to you? Maybe it would matter more if it was one of your
friend’s, or family members? What if you knew what to do, or say, to
change their mind before hand?
That’s why we help anyone, anywhere when they
ask. But, we can’t do this work without your support to get
the message out that suicide is preventable. Education is the first and only
defense against this preventable cause of death, and suicide is ranked
number three for greatest causes of death in the United States. There
are twice as many suicides in this country, then those
that die from homicide. We wouldn’t ask for your
financial help to conduct classes, workshops and lectures for those
that can't afford it if we didn’t need it. So, anything you can
give is greatly appreciated and it will be put towards a good cause.
In closing, the sad truth about suicide is that
most people don’t feel the need to give support, or to seek advice
about what to do, until after a tragedy has already occurred. An
important fact about suicide prevention; The life you save
today, could be the one that saves yours tomorrow!
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"After developing a workshop, coupled with a
unique teaching method, we are proud to say that we have experienced
measurable and immediate results in the field of suicide
prevention."
We visited a small village of about eight hundred
and fifty people located in a remote part of northern Quebec,
Canada. This village had experienced over the six months
immediately prior to our workshop 29 attempted suicides with
2 successes. Its been three months since our one day
workshop given to the community, and its leaders. So far there
have been 8 attempts and zero success.
Suicide awareness and its prevention training works and this
community is a perfect example.
** If you are having a crises of this magnitude
in your village, family, work place, community, or country
then give us a call, we maybe able to help!
** Last updated 3/1/2006 ** |
Sally’s little
secrete
Sally is a very beautiful
young woman, a natural beauty. Big bright blue eyes and long flowing
blonde hair neatly trimmed. She is always well groomed from her head
to her toes with a body that most women would die for. But, when
attempting to ask her a question or trying to hold a conversation with
her, she is unresponsive. At first one would think she was just being
stuck up, or just not interested enough to answer the question. The
truth is this woman, now in her early thirties, had received severe
brain damage at the age of six, it was permanent. It was not what you
might think, though. It was not from a blow or even a fall. It was
from a post traumatic event that could happen to anyone at anytime.
On her way home from school,
Sally was just like any other six year old little girl. She was very
attentive in class and very eager to learn addition, subtraction and
the abc’s. Getting off the school bus Sally would walk home holding
hands with her best friend doing all the things that a little girl
would normally do. She was very happy and couldn’t wait to tell her
mommy about her day and all that she had learned.
It was now five in the evening
and Sally had been home for around four hours when her father walked
in from work. It took some time for her daddy to comprehend what he
was seeing, just standing there in disbelief as the horror sunk in.
Sally had come home about an
hour after her mommy had used her daddy’s shot gun to commit suicide.
Alone for over four hours with her now dead mommy, Sally had attempted
to piece her mommy’s head back together, like a puzzle. It must have
been some sight that her daddy walked in on as Sally was covered from
head to toe in dark blood. Little bloody hand prints covered her
pretty pink dress as she wept uncontrollably crying out for her mommy
to wake up.
After the paramedics arrived
to the scene it took some time to convince Sally to let go of her
mommy. Sally’s daddy suddenly filled with the grief of loosing his
wife, and seeing the horror of her suicide was too much for him and he
had to be institutionalized. Sally went catatonic requiring her to
also be institutionalized. A few months later, Sally’s daddy also
ended his life leaving Sally alone. A grandparent eventually took
custody of Sally and attempted to raise her as a normal child, even
though she never spoke again.
This story is not an unusual
one, as eighty people commit suicide in the United States every day.
Eighty percent of all in home suicides are cleaned up by a family
member. A new organization based out of Las Vegas wants to make a
difference when it comes to suicides in our community, country, and
around the world. ISP, Inc. (International Suicide Prevention, Inc.)
a nonprofit organization has three objectives; raise public awareness
about how to detect the suicidal, teach suicide prevention and support
families that loose a family member to a suicide.
If you would like to learn
more about how to prevent a tragedy such as the one you have just
read, or would like to support ISP, Inc.’s mission, go to
http://www.supportisp.org , or call 702-743-4340.
To make a difference donate today:
ISP
1736 E. Charleston Blvd., #301
Las Vegas, NV 89104 |
Please include your name and address for your receipt.
* ISP is a nonprofit corporation.
The "A" list of those that have been lost
to suicide: | click here |
