You may not have heard, but today is the annual World Suicide Prevention Day. Usually, such efforts are almost invisible. We don’t put nearly as much emphasis on suicide prevention as we once did.

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I am all for suicide prevention, of course. I just wish that those efforts included assisted suicide/euthanasia, which costs the lives of approximately 25,000 people annually around the world — with that toll increasing every year. But despite proliferating laws allowing doctors and nurse practitioners to assisted suicides — or, as in Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, and other countries — actively kill suicidal people, prevention efforts are generally silent about this category of suicide.

I checked on the World Health Association link to Prevention Day for 2026. It has a four-tiered prevention strategy that goes by the acronym LIFE:

L: Limit Access to Suicide;

I: Interact with the media on responsible reporting;

F: Foster life skills of young people;

E: Early identity........

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