Candles lit for hopes on suicide; CAMPAIGN.HUNDREDS of people joined a rally in pre-dawn darkness yesterday to mark World Suicide Prevention Suicide prevention is an umbrella term for the collective efforts of mental health practitioners and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide through proactive preventive measures. Day. Many had gone without sleep to ensure they made the 6am candle-lit vigil at Belfast City Hall Belfast City Hall is the civic building of the Belfast City Council. Located in Donegall Square, it faces north and effectively divides the commercial and business areas of the city centre. - timed to symbolise moving from darkness into the dawn of hope. Around 60 people had left Stormont at 4am to walk to the ceremony. Belfast dad Bobby Cosgrove, whose 16-year-old son Richard took his own life 21 years ago, said: "When my son died you wouldn't have had two people at an event like this. "Within this island we had more than 800 suicides last year and 30 people have taken their own lives in the city of Belfast from July 1 to August 16 this year." |
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