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On the Topic of Youth Suicide in Utah
By Alex Stuckey | The Salt Lake Tribune
Republican state Sen. Daniel Thatcher was 11 years old when he lost his first classmate to suicide. He was 16 when he lost his close friend.
That's why, he says, it's so important to drop the stigma and talk about suicide.
"If you talk to someone, they live," Thatcher, from West Valley City, said. "If you connect them to support, they live."
Hatch convenes suicide-prevention conference
By Lois M. Collins & Lauren Fields | Deseret News
“We’ve made more progress in the last five years than in the 20 years before,” Dr. Doug Gray, a psychiatrist, professor and suicidologist at the University of Utah, told the audience at the roundtable, held at East High in Salt Lake City.