10A • COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • OCTOBER 3, 2018
SUICIDES
from A1
have, in South Lane Coun-
ty, a lower income rate…
some of these factors that
identify folks as being at a
higher risk are likely a part
of what has brought our
numbers up but there’s no
‘why’ and that’s the survi-
vor question, it’s exactly it,”
said Valeria Clarke. Clarke
is on the Lane County Sui-
cide Prevention Steering
Committee and is a coun-
selor at South Lane Mental
Health.
Th e report identifi es fi -
nancial shortfalls and fam-
ily issues as top reasons for
suicide and notes that spe-
cifi c groups, like veterans,
have a higher rate of sui-
cide. Sixty percent of men,
according to the report,
never sought out mental
health treatment prior to
committing suicide.
“He was a big believer in
that you can fi x yourself,”
Layla Munk said of her
husband Brett, who passed
away from a self-infl icted
gunshot wound in Febru-
ary. Th e Munks had been
active in the community,
owning a local business
and participating in the
chamber of commerce.
According to Munk, her
husband had lived with
some depression aft er they
closed the doors to their
business but on the morn-
ing of his suicide, had been
on the phone to his father
and posted a selfi e on Face-
book.
“He’d been drinking
that morning,” she said. “I
thought he was going to
the store, it was less than
30 minutes from the time
we were talking to when
he went out into the garage
and shot himself.”
“A lot of times, suicide is
an impulsive act,” Clarke
said. And while the re-
port includes resources
for those thinking of sui-
cide focused around hav-
ing conversations about
their thoughts, Munk
said that, as a survivor,
that narrative can sting.
“We were talking,”
she said. “If I had talked
him out of it that morn-
ing, he could have done
it another time.”
But according to
Clarke, it’s not always
just about a conversa-
tion—who people are
having the conversation
with can oft en make the
diff erence.
“Sometimes the conver-
sation can’t be with the
people you’re having a hard
time with and that’s where
we come in and that’s why
we have suicide hotlines,
the texting line, those types
of resources there’s a sui-
cide prevention where you
can email,” she said. “Th ose
things exist because some-
times relieving that tension
of do I really want to follow
through with this requires
a really non-bias conversa-
tion even if it’s just another
person on the other end of
the phone.”
Of the 1,079 people who
committed suicide in Lane
County over the last 16
years, nearly 90 percent of
them were 25-years-old or
older and men were four
times as likely to die by sui-
cide than women. Outside
of the jarring statistic that
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placed Lane County’s rate
at 50 percent higher than
the national average, the
remainder of the report
follows common trends:
men are more likely to use
a fi rearm and women are
more likely to use poison;
more than 25 percent of
individuals had a pre-exist-
shoved the book in front of
us and said, 'Oh you were
in Vietnam, look, he just
published this book of pho-
tographs.'"
Th e man took the book.
He sat in the booth with his
wife. Marc and his friend
found a table of their own.
"We're talking and I look
Sixty percent of men, according to
the report, never sought out mental
health treatment prior to
committing suicide .
ing issue with alcohol; one
in four deaths occurred
among veterans.
Marc Waszkiewicz is a
veteran. He completed his
tours in Vietnam, docu-
menting his experiences
that he’s since turned into a
photo book and documen-
tary aimed at preventing
veteran suicide. Th e idea
came to him, he told Th e
Sentinel previously, when
he was showing a friend his
photo book in a restaurant
and a man, wearing a Ma-
rine’s hat, saw them.
"Th at's when my friend
back and his wife is out of
her seat and on his side of
the booth. She's petting his
head and he's turning pages
and pointing and pointing.
And she has tears running
down her face. Th ey were
talking. Th at's healing.
Th at's healing happening,"
Marc said.
Th e LGTBQ community,
an additional special popu-
lation identifi ed by the re-
port, was not analyzed and
according to Clarke, it’s due
to accuracy.
“Th e LGBTQ community
is very diffi cult community
to collect data on" she said.
“Th e information they’re
collecting is factual and
to have someone else (left
behind) tell you they were
transgender or they were
gay, there’s no way to know
in any accurate way so they
choose not to because it
would be under reported.”
Munk has since
moved away from
Cottage Grove. She’s
active in the move-
ment to educate
people about sui-
cide, participating in
walks and social me-
dia groups for wid-
ows and widowers of
suicide. “Th ere were
defi nitely signs that
I either kind of poo-
pooed or ignored and then
the way that he did it was
really random and out of
the blue,” she said of her
husband’s suicide.
“Th ere are other people
who spend a lot of time in
therapy,” Clarke said, “talk
about it a lot and then go
ahead and do it anyway
because that’s what they’ve
chosen for their lives, and
their deaths for that matter.
Researchers want you to
think we can clomp it to-
gether and we can fi gure it
out but we’re talking about
the psyche, talking about
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think it’s a really hard place
to fi nd the why. Th at’s why
having all of these resourc-
es where people can have
diff erent conversations is
one of the best things we
can do.”
If you or someone you
know needs to have a con-
versation or is experienc-
ing suicidal thoughts, help
is available: The National
Suicide Prevention Life-
line:
1-800-273-TALK
(8255). White Bird Clin-
ic 24/7 hotline 541-687-
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‘HOME’ to 741741. South
Lane Mental Health 541-
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“Eff ective suicide preven-
tion requires the involve-
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To view the full report,
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