Tuesday, Sept. 17, was the second annual National Suicide Awareness Day. At SIU Medicine, faculty, staff and learners took a moment of silence to remember, mourn, pay tribute to and send love to those in our community lost to suicide. The annual day of remembrance and awareness was begun last year by residency program directors in Emergency Medicine to commemorate those in health care that we have lost to suicide and raise awareness of the problem and how to get help. So - raising awareness. There are some pretty difficult facts that have come into focus in the last few years. One is that the