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Standing along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, Chris Del Dotto looks down a paved path he s walked countless times over the years near his home in Nahant, Massachusetts. It was here in late May that Del Dotto was walking his dog JJ when the silky terrier was attacked by a coyote. I just hear him scream. I turned and there was a coyote with him. It dropped him and I scooped him up. The coyote was standing its ground. It wanted the dog, Del Dotto recalled.JJ made it to the vet, where doctors determined he had a punctured lung and the 15-year-old had to be put down. They said, You should come in and say goodbye, which was horrible, Del Dotto said.In Na
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termo stanley lies a quilt of loss. It s such a treatable illness, mental illnesses, she said.Every life depicted on that quilt has been lost to suicide. There s so much stigma and fear and it doesn t need to be that way, she said. We can do better. Piver is e
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stanley water jug r office sits the heartbeat of the suicide prevention hotline, a massive phone bank with staff at the ready to answer incoming calls. We have seen an increase in calls, particularly with our youth, Piver said. We re already at more calls this year than we took all of last year. As of now, callers to the national suicide prevention hotline need to dial a toll-free 800-number. That s where all those calls get answered, Piver said. It s by people who care and who are trained and who want to be there for people through life struggles. To simplify calling for help, last year, Congress passed--and the president has now signed-- a bill to set aside what will be a new three-digit suicide prevention hotline 鈥?988. It is supposed to launch in July of next year, but theres an issue. It will probably require many years of investment by local, state and federal governments, potentially philanthropy, to really put together a system that that is responsive, said Chuck Ingoglia, CEO of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.Ingoglia said, similar to what happened when 911 was established in the
