MOUNTAIN HOME, Tenn. (WJHL) — It’s estimated that between 14 and 16 veterans die by suicide across the country each day according to Autumn Lowry, the Suicide Prevention Program Manager at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
“It is vital to talk about suicide as it is any other terminal illness,” Lowry said. “Because suicide is absolutely preventable.”
She says that number is down from where it was a few years ago at 22 a day. But Lowry and her team work every day to get that number to zero.
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“You have an idea of who fits into that box, right? Who fits into the box of people who need help there?” Lowry said. “There’s no box, none of us are impervious to needing help.”
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