b'are understandable; and that it is up to you how much you wish to share with others about your loved ones death. We hope the information included here helps you to decide what is best for your family, and we know that talking openly about suicide can be helpful and healing to you and those around you. Despite its complexity, we continue to learn more every day from science about what influences suicide as an outcome. Mental health conditions, life and environmental stressors can all play a role in suicide risk. Just as people can die of heart disease or cancer, people can die as a consequence of having a mental health concern. We should also remember that many people with mental health concerns do not go on to die by suicide, and that the interaction between life stress, biology and mental health is a dynamic and individual one.Psychologists Bob Baugher and Jack Jordan explain it in this way:[O]nce a person has decided to end his or her life, there are limits to how much anyone can do to stop the act.In fact, people sometimes find a way to kill themselves even when hospitalized in locked psychiatric units under careful supervision. In light of this fact, try to be realistic about how preventable the suicide was and how much you could have done to intervene. Medical research is also demonstrating that major psychiatric disorders involve changes in the functioningof the brain that can severely alter the thinking, mood, and behavior of someone suffering from the disorder. The illness produces biological changes in the individual that create the emotional and physical pain (depression, inability to take pleasure in things, hopelessness, etc.) which contribute to almost all suicides.Resource and Healing Guide 5'