When Sue Loncar was in total despair, after the death of her 16 year old daughter and her husband within days of each other she felt hopeless with no idea what to do next. Her best friend of many years Libby, told her she was going to run the "Grace Loncar Foundation", which she started immediately, filed all the paperwork and they had their first meeting 2 weeks after Grace was gone. www.graceloncarfoundation.com A big reason for the foundation is to end the stigma because people do not want to talk about it. Suicide has increased by 70% in the last 10 years and is the number 2 death for ages 10 - 34. We learn about an incredible program called "Hope Squad" that was created by someone from Utah and they are trying to get it into all schools. Shockingly they are getting a lot of resistance because schools are afraid it will give students ideas. The foundation is even offering to pay for the counselors and the training. Sue and her oldest daughter Sally speak at many events. They also provide care cards that have all the suicide warning signs on them. The reach of the foundation is all over the country. Sue believes that it is mostly impulse control with teenagers, and she believes that even though Grace was depressed her suicide was out of impulse because she was mad. Their frontal lobe is not all the way developed yet. Sue made the difficult decision to have an open casket at Grace's funeral, because she wanted the reality to sink in with Grace's friends that this is what suicide looks like. Not all family members were in agreement with this decision but Sue thought it would be important and her passion is to try to save lives. Sue talks passionately about mental health. She tells us that they call people "Suicide Survivors" because it is a double whammy to overcome - because not only do you lose your loved one, but then people blame you. The surviving person gets looked at like it is their fault. Sue says that sometimes it is better to call a friend than calling a hotline, but of course to call someone is the most important. Younger people don't feel they can trust their friends because they get let down so often. Sue wishes that she could snap out of her deep grief, because she doesn't want it to define her, but she doesn't know how to. She tells us that they try to celebrate Grace's life and focus on all that was amazing about her and not how she died. She would give everything for just one more day! www.graceloncarfoundation.com Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-8255