What Do We Know about Suicide Bereavement, and What We Can Do to Help Suicide-Loss Survivors?

Affiliations

¹ The Lior Tsfaty Center for Suicide and Mental Pain Studies, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer 40250, Israel.
² Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.

Editorial

Yossi Levi-Belz et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 19;20(8):5577.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph20085577.

¹ The Lior Tsfaty Center for Suicide and Mental Pain Studies, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer 40250, Israel.
² Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.

Abstract

"Suicide is not only the end of life for the deceased but also the beginning of a highly challenging life for those left behind" [...].

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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