Harry Reid: “Senate Resolution 84 will pass. This is a resolution that deals with suicide prevention. Currently, there are 31,000…”

“Senate Resolution 84 will pass. This is a resolution that deals with suicide prevention. Currently, there are 31,000 suicides every year in the United States; 83 people a day kill themselves. I just want to express my appreciation to those that are sponsoring this resolution. It is a bipartisan resolution. Senator Coverdell has been the lead Republican on this issue. Madam President, he is the lead sponsor on this because in his State there is a very courageous man, a man named Jerry Weyrauch. Jerry is leading a national effort in this country to draw attention to this issue. He is doing it after having gone through the trauma of losing his daughter by suicide. Suicide is something that affects many people. As indicated, 31,000 people a year kill themselves in this country. In my Senate office here in Washington, about 2 months ago, during a period of 4 weeks, three of my employees had relatives that killed themselves. One was an 11-year-old boy that hanged himself. Suicide is something we have learned can be avoided.”