World Suicide Prevention Day promotes worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides. Suicide is a multi-determined phenomenon that occurs against a background of complex interacting biological social psychological and environmental risk and protective factors. Despite the complexity of this phenomenon suicide can be prevented. On average almost 3000 people commit suicide daily. For every person who completes a suicide 20 or more may attempt to end their lives. The sponsoring International Association for Suicide Prevention the co-sponsor WHO and other partners advocate for the prevention of suicidal behaviour provision of adequate treatment and follow-up care for people who attempted suicide