Finley Brown, Chaplan at Hestera Mental Health Center. Carol Hoskins, Psychiatric Social worker at Western MO Health Center. -- suicide rates -- increase in certain areas (young adults and adolescence) -- factors that contribute to these age groups reasons for suicide -- the stresses that are put on children to be part of the American Dream -- the economy has an effect on how many suicides are committed -- crisis that some people put up with, they feel they have no alternative. -- Do suicide victims feel this is a dramatic thing to draw attention to themselves. -- does suicide and depression go hand in hand -- how often are suicides methodically planned -- why some suicides aren't successful -- automobile suicides -- alcohol as a depressant -- do some crisis activate suicide -- frustrations when there is a loss we can do nothing about -- myths of suicide -- statistics -- prevention -- social attitudes -- what Finley Brown asks during his counseling sessions