It can be a difficult, heart-aching topic, but even addressing it - just bringing it up - can be an important breakthrough. Especially here, around Coeur d'Alene, where the suicide rate is the highest in Idaho, the state with the sixth highest rate nationally. While it can be much easier to ignore the problem than talk about it, the only way those alarming statistics will reverse course is if people tackle the issue head on. That means recognizing it, and discussing it. "It doesn't have to be direct, it doesn't have to be threatening," said Raquel Kellicut, a therapist and grief counselor on reaching out to someone who may be having troubling thoughts. "It's expressing an interest in somebody"/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here. (Tom Hasslinger's Press photo of state Sen. John Goedde telling of the loss of his daughter)

Question: Has your family been impacted by suicide?