This document discusses suicide and its impacts. It provides statistics that over 4,300 people die by suicide each year in England and Wales. Suicide was decriminalized in 1961 in England but remains illegal in some countries like India and Singapore. The rest of the document presents short memorial profiles of four individuals - Anna, Sheridan, Moira, and Stuart - who died by suicide, including their ages and brief details about their deaths. It encourages taking suicidal thoughts seriously and preventing further loss of life to suicide.

1. More than 4,300 people die by suicide in England and Wales each year. This equates to almost 12 each day.

2. In India, attempted suicide is a punishable crime by up to one year in prison and/or fine. The same law applies in Singapore.Suicide (and also attempted suicide) was illegal under English Law but ceased to be an offence with the passing of the Suicide Act 1961.(Wiki 2008)

3. In Loving Memory of…Anna Rosenfield30.04.89 – 13.04.08Died aged 18“I don't think I'll ever be able to forget her. She was someone who was so intelligent, amazing, beautiful, and most of all someone who I looked up to”

4. AnnaAfter issuing an online plea for help, her friends on a website she volunteered on got in touch with her college.Staff from the college broke into her room, but it was too late.Anna was already dead.

5. In Loving Memory of…Sheridan Vivian1987-2007“Hiding behindmy lies..I'm a messthatI despise.InevitablyI'll fall. Now thatI've learntLovecannotconquerall”

6. Sheridan/SheriSheri took an overdose of Paracetomol and died in her Gran’s arms.Her death was slow and painful.

7. "I'm just some girl with a dream of a life worth living for. I want to become a counsellor - one of the best! I want to hang onto the people important to me - and not have them leave me. I want to be loved - is that so much to ask?" (Taken from Sheri’s social networking profile on the internet)

8. In Loving Memory of…Moira VivianAge 42Left behind 2 daughters and a loving husband

9. Moira Vivian was Sheri’s mum.Only 6 months after Sheri’s suicide, Moira took a cocktail of drugs and sadly passed away.She could not cope with the death of her eldest daughter, and had told family members that she was to blame for Sheri’s death. She was convinced she could have done more.Telling her family she was going to the cinema, Moira left her family home never to return. She was missing for 6 days before a retired police officer found her body while he was walking his dog.

10. Newspaper headlines read:'Come home' plea to missing woman – BBC NewsSuicide Teen's Mum Found Dead – Daily RecordThe mother who could not live with the loss of her daughter – The ScotsmanPolice officers search undergrowth in the Dundee Loan area of Forfar during the search for Mrs Moira Vivian.

11. In Loving Memory of…Stuart Collins12.3.71 - 3.12.04Stuart left behind a loving partner and 2 young daughters

12. A piece of Stuart’s art work clearly shows the amount of distress he was in

13. The inevitable part is the fact that you are still here and the people closest to you live day by day in a deep sadness – you have let them down and it will never be the same. They also live with a silent dread of if and when you might try again. Their sleepless nights, phone calls just to check you are still around. You realise you have created a bigger agony that has spread to others.Stuart Collins12.3.1971 - 3.12.2004

14. In Loving Memory of…Those who tragically took their lives when the pain became too much.Anna Rosenfield18 yearsMoira Vivian42 yearsSheridan Vivian19 yearsStuart Collins33 years

15. We cannot change the past, but we can make the future better.NEVER think that somebody might be lying about having suicidal thoughts. TAKE IT SERIOUSLY – it really is a matter of life or death.

16. Whose name will be herenext??

17. Not long before her death Sheri wrote a poem expressing her feelings.Please read this on the handout you’ve been given.