This post is for dialogue about suicide as a human condition. If you are contemplating suicide yourself or know someone who is seek an in-person service provider. Use 988 if appropriate in the US.
Zine is here- I recommend downloading and printing both pages then printing 1:2 to make it a 2 sided document you can fold and colour.
This zine was made as a way for me to cope with an experience in the spring where I learned a lot about suicide prevention. This zine is incomplete and I would add a section about locking up medications if that was part of someone’s plan. This zine focuses on gun as means. I recommend engaging in QPR or CALM trainings if you are interested in learning more about suicide.
Like addiction, we each are touched by suicide and live in a culture that is saturated with implicit and explicit pain and avoidance of pain. If you are feeling the pain, not only are you not alone, you are human. And to be a human means you build social connections and relationships to cope with the pain felt between all of us. Reach into your friends and family and local, in-person service providers. Be accountable to your soul and the people you are in relationships with. See you in the field.
