User blog:ARTaylor/World Suicide Prevention Day 2015

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. The day was started by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, World Health Organization, and World Federation for Mental Health to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides around the world. According to studies, more people die from suicide than from murder and war, with many more failing in their attempt, while suicide accounts for nearly half of all violent deaths in the world.

Actress Mary Kay Bergman, voice of Gwen Stacy on Spider-Man, killed herself after battling with depression on Novmeber 11, 1999 at the age of thirty-eight.

Animation has occasionally dealt with the subject. In Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, Dolores tried to stab herself after her son Janus was killed. Victor Frankenstein shot himself in The Monster of Frankenstein. Captain America began taking suicidal missions in Ultimate Avengers II. Doctor Strange threw himself off a bride in Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme.