I would suggest teaching people what depression is not. It is not self pity! It is NOT attention seeking! It is NOT simply sadness for the moment! When suicide happens, it can be triggered by many people (influence of the mass crowd), it can be done out of value of another's life over one's own, (heroism), lack of value in one's self, or no other options available to get out of or recover from a painful situation such as grief, stress, etc. Common to many of these situations is that the person sees no other options before them...no solution to their pain. The public need to be educated on understanding this and not stigmatizing it. The topic is not permitted to be talked about, often leaving people suffering these thoughts feeling there is no one to turn to. When all they need is an ear to listen. TEACH TEACH TEACH the public not to fear it and stigmatize it. The fear of it is what keeps many people suffering in silence until it is too late.