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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMedCentral Review Open Access Preventing suicide: a resource for the family Sergio A Pérez Barrero Address: Medical University of Granma, Cuba Email: Sergio A Pérez Barrero - serper.grm@infomed.sld.cu Published: 24 January 2008 Received: 26 July 2007 Accepted: 24 January 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7:1 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-1 This article is available from: /content/7/1/1 ? 2008 Barrero; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The family can play an important role in the prevention of suicide if it is capable of aiding the mental health care services in the early detection and management of family members at risk. In order to attain this goal, the whole family should be informed in how to prevent suicide. Background A total of 9 out of 10 people who committed suicide expressed their purposes clearly, and it is likely 10 in 10 people who commit suicide will have hinted at their intention to put an end to their live. Suicide is one of the 10 major causes of death in most countries. The family can play an important role in its pre- vention, as it is an avoidable cause of death. In order to be able to prevent suicide among its members, the family should rid itself of some myths associated with suicidal behavior. Myth 2: those who says they will do it, will not This myth leads to suicide threats not taken seriously because they are taken as blackmail, manipulation, bluff, etc. Myths can be defined as culturally accepted phenomena rooted in the minds of people that do not reflect any sci- entific truth; in the case of suicide they are erroneous judg- ments concerning the act itself and the person who takes their