What happens to those who are left behind when a friend, family member or loved one unexpectedly takes their life?
How do these survivors navigate the grieving process?
How do they recover from such a profound trauma?
Answers can be found through the written submissions of the twenty-six contributors to this sensitive collection. Award winning memoirist Marlayna Glynn has compiled these true survivor stories to invite you to understand the many implications of how survivors are affected when a friend, family member or loved one takes their life.
Each year in the United States, approximately 40,000 people take their lives, making suicide the tenth leading cause of death for Americans. The number of annual suicides in the United States is double that of the number of homicides.
For every completed suicide, there are approximately six survivors. This means roughly 240,00 suicide loss survivors were created in the United States just this year.
How do these survivors navigate the grieving process?
How do they recover from such a profound trauma?
Answers can be found through the written submissions of the twenty-six contributors to this sensitive collection. Award winning memoirist Marlayna Glynn has compiled these true survivor stories to invite you to understand the many implications of how survivors are affected when a friend, family member or loved one takes their life.
Each year in the United States, approximately 40,000 people take their lives, making suicide the tenth leading cause of death for Americans. The number of annual suicides in the United States is double that of the number of homicides.
For every completed suicide, there are approximately six survivors. This means roughly 240,00 suicide loss survivors were created in the United States just this year.
