Sharon Parsley (sharonparsley@outlook.com) is President and Managing Director at Quest Advisory Group, LLC in Ocala, FL.
During June, the suicides of two celebrity figures in the worlds of food and fashion (Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade) drew national attention. Shortly after, light shone on statistical information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicating that the overall national suicide rate has increased by 25% in the previous two decades and that suicide rates increased by more than 30% in half of US states during that same time period.[1]