Over the last several weeks, I’ve put a lot of effort and focus into Live Through This, a project about suicide attempt survivors (which I wrote about here). I’ve been posting one image a week, along with excerpts of their corresponding stories.
The goal of the project is to bring awareness to the public. This is a human issue, not a gay issue or an adolescent issue or a Native American issue or a military issue, and it needs attention. One big problem with suicide is that people are afraid to talk about it. Often, when someone fears a friend or loved one is suicidal, they either think it’s a plea for attention or they’re afraid that asking the person if they’re suicidal will plant the idea in that person’s mind. Neither of these things is true. All suicide crises should be taken seriously. Everyone, without exception, should have the courage to ask and listen without judgment. A lot of lives would get saved that way.
There are a lot of developments going down behind the scenes. I’m working with some old friends from academia to marry the art of this project with some real, hard science. I’m starting to plan travel for the people who have contacted me about participating all over the country. There’s even a Live Through This tattoo out in the world already! Take a look at the first four faces of LTT below, and maybe shoot on over to the website and read their stories.
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- If you would like to help fund the project, click here.
- If you would like to participate in Live Through This, please contact me.
- If you think you know someone who might be interested, please pass along the link to this entry or to the LTT website.
- If you’re sympathetic to the cause, please tweet about it, or post a link on Facebook or G+, and ask your friends to re-post it. The more eyes that see this, the better.
- If you want to follow LTT on Twitter, you can do that here.
- If you want to buy a LTT logo t-shirt, you can do that here. We have 1 small, 2 large, and 1 XL left in this batch.
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