suicide

Suicide, or death by intentional self-harm, has been steadily rising in Minnesota for the past 20 years.

If I can be honest in who I am, and the opportunity that I have in this seat, hopefully there is a little girl out there who can hear or see a message and realize that it is a possibility for them — that they are not too broken to do this work. We all deserve to be in this space and make these changes together.

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We don’t expect anyone to fix it, because they can’t. It’s very powerful just to know that they are there.

Christopher Benz died by suicide. He was 17 years old. “It has been a while but in some ways it