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          Note: Boldface page numbers
        
        
          indicate illustrations.
        
        
          Abramson, David, 24
        
        
          Abramson, Lisa, 23–24
        
        
          Ackerman, John, 56
        
        
          age, suicide rates and, 16–17,
        
        
          54
        
        
          alcohol, 22
        
        
          Alliance of Hope for Suicide
        
        
          Loss Survivors, 70
        
        
          American Association of
        
        
          Suicidology (AAS), 53, 70
        
        
          American Foundation for
        
        
          Suicide Prevention (AFSP),
        
        
          14, 31, 53, 70
        
        
          American Medical Association
        
        
          (AMA), 58–59
        
        
          American Psychiatric
        
        
          Association, 19
        
        
          Anderson, Lauren, 33
        
        
          Baird, Debbie, 50
        
        
          bereavement, as factor in
        
        
          suicide, 26–27
        
        
          bipolar disorder, 23
        
        
          Bourdain, Anthony, 4,
        
        
          5
        
        
          Brady Center to Prevent Gun
        
        
          Violence, 62–63
        
        
          brain, impulsiveness and
        
        
          development of, 33
        
        
          bullying, 32, 40, 50–51
        
        
          of transgender youth, 17, 37
        
        
          Carless, Chad, 33
        
        
          Case, Anne, 28, 29
        
        
          Centers for Disease Control
        
        
          and Prevention (CDC), 6–7,
        
        
          24–25, 28
        
        
          on depression, 19, 21
        
        
          on increase in suicide rate, 4,
        
        
          9, 11, 17, 53
        
        
          on prevalence of serious
        
        
          mental illness, 23
        
        
          on suicidal behavior among
        
        
          transgender youths, 17–
        
        
          18, 37
        
        
          on suicide among children/
        
        
          young people, 30–31, 34,
        
        
          50–51
        
        
          on suicide among
        
        
          veterinarians, 12
        
        
          on suicides related to mental
        
        
          illness, 5
        
        
          Centre for Suicide Prevention,
        
        
          70–71
        
        
          Chawla, Gaurav, 18
        
        
          Columbia Lighthouse Project,
        
        
          6
        
        
          Columbia-Suicide Severity
        
        
          Rating Scale (C-SSRS),
        
        
          57–58, 62
        
        
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