Suicide

“You know, nobody can really understand the unimaginable pain that is the reason that somebody would do this, would take their own life.”

While clergy are generally not mental health professionals, they can provide support and guidance for those struggling with mental health, experts say.

“I firmly believe in the power of Jesus’s presence — his flesh, his blood, his soul — in the Eucharist. Marcos desperately needed it” at that moment.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 720,000 people die by suicide annually — 73% in low- and middle-income countries.

“We commend him now into the loving and merciful hands of our God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with the help of Mary, our Blessed Mother.”

In the U.S., nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in 2023 — which is amounts to about one person every 11 minutes — according to the CDC.

As New York state lawmakers recently passed a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with medical assistance, OSV News’ Charlie Camosy discussed physician-assisted killing with …

(OSV News) — The head of the Tuscan Bishops’ Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was “not an achievement, but a defeat for …

(OSV News) — A diocesan priest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was found dead Nov. 26, having apparently taken his own life. Archbishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Dubuque released a message …

ZURICH (OSV News) — Following the death of an American woman in a so-called suicide capsule in Switzerland and the arrest of several people involved in her death, a Swiss …