To mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2023 IP Inclusive and Jonathan’s Voice held a free webinar on Male Suicide: Myths, Action and Hope. Statistics from the Samaritans website show that in 2021, 5219 people in England died by suicide, with male deaths by suicide three times higher than female. Since records began, male deaths by suicide have always been higher than female. It is said that on average 10 people are impacted by each suicide (though in reality the number may be much higher), which means in 2021 around 50,000 people in England were affected by suicide. This is such an important and yet under discussed topic. The session was led by Susie Bennett from the University of Glasgow’s Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Mark Fudge and Professor Andrew Reeves.
You can read the summary of the webinar here, or watch the recording on youtube.
